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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 
SOCIETY. 

Jvv . 3 



ATHENE OXONIENSES 



BY 



ANTHONY A WOOD, M.A 



L 



LIFE OF WOOD. 




OXFORD: 

PRINTED BY T. COMBE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 



FOR THE 



ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
M.DCCC.XLVIII. 



ATHENE OXONIENSES 



AN EXACT HISTORY OF 



WRITERS AND BISHOPS 



WHO HAVE HAD THEIK EDUCATION IN THE 
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 



BY ANTHONY A WOOD, M. A. 



A NEW EDITION WITH ADDITIONS 



BY PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L. 






CONTAINING THE LIFE OF WOOD. 




OXFORD: 

^ PRINTED BY T. COMBE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY, 

FOR THE 

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
1848. 






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CONTENTS. 



Advertisement 2 

Life of Wood 3 

APPENDIX. 

No. I. Hearne's Account of Wood 325 

II. The Last Will and Testament of Anthony a Wood . . 334 

III. Hearne's Memoranda relating to Anthony a Wood. . 337 

IV. Dr. Rawlinson's miscellaneous Collections relative to 

Anthony a Wood, from the Rawl. MSS. in the 
Bodleian 341 

V. Huddesford's character of Anthony a Wood 344 

VI. Pedigree of Anthony a Wood 357 

VII. Proceedings against Anthony a Wood 358 



THE LIFE 

i 



OF 



ANTHONY A WOOD, 



WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. 



WOOD, VOL. I. 



ADVERTISEMENT. 

It was judged to be more appropriate to the design of this 
edition to insert the Life of Anthony a Wood as written by his 
own pen, and in his own manner, than to offer any new account 
of his life and labours, the materials for which could have been 
derived from no other source. 

The Life of Wood, as far as the year 1672, was first published 
by Thomas Hearne, who transcribed it from the original in the 
hands of Dr. Tanner, and printed it in the second volume of 
ThomcB Ca'i Vindicice Antiquitatis Academics Oxoniensis, printed 
at Oxford in 1730, 8vo. 

The additional minutes or memoirs, which commence with the 
beginning of the year 1673, were taken from a manuscript now 
in the Bodleian library, written by Richard Rawlinson, D.C.L. 
of St. John's college, and intitled Historical Passages from Ant. 
Wood's Papers. These, it is very evident, were taken from 
Wood's pocket Almanacks, and are, in fact, the very materials 
from which the author himself would have drawn up the continua- 
tion of his life, had he lived to carry that design into effect. 
They were first published, under the advice and with the assistance 
of Thomas Warton, B.D. and fellow of Trinity college, the author 
of the History of English Poetry, by William Huddesford, B.D. 
also fellow of Trinity, and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, who 
appended them to the Lives of Leland and Hearne, Oxford, 
1772, 8vo. 

In the present edition such notes as were mere extracts from 
the Athene are omitted, those by the former editors are pointed 
out by their names or initials, and such as now appear for the 
first time, are enclosed between brackets. 



THE LIFE. 



Anthony Wood or a Wood, son of Tho. Wood or a, 1630. 
Wood, bachelaur of arts and of the civil law, was borne in _ 

3 ' Dec. 17. 

an antient stone-house,, opposite to the forefront of Merton 

a There is no title in the ori- of the earl of Oxford (who lent it 

ginal MS. but in the first part of me) from which (in good mea- 

Mr. Wood's Diary (written with sure) he extracted this imperfect 

his own hand) now in the hands life, there is the following title : 

THE DIARIE OF THE LIFE 

of Anthony a Wood, 

Historiographer and Antiquarie 

of the most famous Universitie of 

OXFORD. 

In which are intermicc'd 

severall Memorialls relating to his neare Allies, 

Kindred, and others; 

as also 

certaine publick Actions of his time; 

which may be useful hereafter 

to Historians: 

Cuncta aperit secreta dies, ex tempore verum 

Nascitur, et veniens aetas abscondita pandit. Mantuan. 

Lord make me to know mine end, and 
the measure of my dayes, what it is ; that 
I * might know how frail I am. Psalm xxxix. 4. 

( So teach me to number my daies, 
that I may apply my heart unto 
wisdome. Psalm xc. 12. 

As for the Diary itself, as it is relates to affairs before the restau- 
nothing near so full, even in what ration, so neither is it so exact as 

* L, may. 
B 2 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[i6 3 ( 



Dec. 23. 



coll. in the collegiate parish of S. John Bapt. de Merton, 
situat and being within the nniversitie of Oxford, 
on munday the seventeenth day of December (S.Lazarus 
day) at about 4 of the clock in the morning : which stone- 
house, with a backside and garden adjoyning, was bought 
by his father of John Lant, master of arts of the univ. 
of Oxford, 8 December, 6 Jac. I. Dom. 1608, and is held 
by his family of Merton coll. before mentioned. 

He was christned or taken into the bosome of the 
church. At which time he had to his godfathers, Anthony 
Clopton b , bachelaur of Divinity and fellow of Corp. 
Christi college, and Edward Dawson, Dr. of physick of 
Lincolne college : and to his godmother, M ris Catherine 
Fisher, the wife of Will. Seymoure of Oxon. an attorney ; 
and afterwards the first wife of Tho. Rowney, an attorney 
also of the same place, father, by his second wife, to 



the Life, and yet in some things 
the Life may be corrected from it, 
as may appear partly from what I 
have printed at the bottom of the 
pages, and partly from these notes 
at the end. When I first saw the 
Diary, I presently concluded (and 
so I told some particular friends) 
that I thought it ought not to be 
printed, for some reasons that I 
then gave, and I find, that I have 
no reason to alter that opinion 
since I have had the use of the 
Life, which is (for the main) both 
more exact, and of greater value 
and satisfaction. I shall say no- 
thing more, unless it be to ac- 
quaint the reader, that the earl of 
Oxford (when he was only lord 
Harley) had *the Diary from Mr. 



Anstis, (now Garter principal king 
of arms,) who gave it him in the 
year 17 12, and that Mr. Anstis 
receiv'd it from Mr. Dale the he- 
rald many years since, in exchange 
for several original letters of Mr. 
Wood's to sir Peter Pett, the 
king's advocate general for the 
kingdome of Ireland, which he 
bought at the sale of his books. 
The letters were mostly about his 
method of defending himself a- 
gainst the prosecution in the yice- 
chancellour's court, and desiring 
his advice, and he is very sorry, 
that he did not take copies of 
them. Hearne. 

b [He was a native of Glouces- 
tershire, and became a member of 
C.C.C. Nov. 7, 1606, jet. 13.] 



* Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. cxxv. p. 137. 



1634.] LIFE OF WOOD. 5 

Thorn. Rowney, esq;. c high- sheriff of Oxfordshire an. 
169. . 

He was altogether nursed by his mother (of whoine jo"**. 
shal be mention made under the yeare 1666) and by none 9 Car - L 
else. For as she nursed his 3 elder brothers, so she 
nursed him (whom she found very quiet) and the two 
next that followed. 

At the Summer assize, held in the Guild hall of the 1634. 
citie of Oxon. appeared with a commission from the king, IO Car - I# 
Georg Owen and Will. Ryley, officers of armes, to visit u y " 
and take an account of all the armes and pedegrees of the 
gentry of Oxfordshire. And to add authority to their 
commission, 'twas read in the open court before the judg, 
justices and country gentrie. This memoir e I here set 
downe, because Mr. Wood's father (of whom I shall make 
mention under the yeare 1642) was warned among the 
gentrie to appeare before the said officers or heralds with 
his armes and pedegre, and to have them entred into 
their books ; but he, forsooth, pleading the privilege of 
the university, or that he was a privileged person, and so 
consequently exempted, as he pretended (but false) e curia 
Marischalli, he did not appeare in his owne behalf, tho' 
he did in the behalf of the Petties of Tetsworth, and 
entred, what he knew of that family, the armes, matches, 
and issue of three or more descents, being desired so to 
do by Maximilian Pettie, who gave him the fees, and he 
d the heralds. It was afterwards to Mr. A. Wood, when 
he came to understand those things, a great trouble to 
him, that his father did not enter three or more descents 

c . . . Rowney, jun. esq. occurs tonii a Wood, cujus avroypacpov 

sheriff of Oxon. ann. 1691. See mihi perquam benevole mutuo de- 

Qazette from Dec. 10. to Dec. 14. dit nobilissimus comes Oxonien- 

of that year. W. & H. sis, Edvardus Harleius. Hearne. 

d The said heralds in Diario An- 



ir Car. I 

Aug 



6 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 35 

of his owne familie, which he had then [been] better able 
to doe, than those of the familie of his wife (Pettie.) And 
the reason is, because that his father dying when he was 
yong, those things, which he knew of his family, dyed 
with him, and his son could never obtaine them from any 
other person of his kindred, nor can he yet from any place 
of record, unless he take a journey into Lancashire, from 
whence his grandfather [came] about the beginning of 
the raigne of qu. Elizabeth. 

1635. This yeare he had the small pox so much, that he was 
for a time blinded with them. 

A fine of SOU. was set by the warden and fellowes of 
Merton coll. when his father renewed his lease of the old 
stone-house, wherein his son A. Wood was borne (called 
antiently Portionists or Postmasters hall) for 40 yeares, 
and for a common inn called the Flowr de Luce, situat 
and being in the parish of St. Martin ad Quadrivium in 
Oxon. (which inn his father had bought of Rich. Theed, 
gent, on the eleventh of Sept. 14 Jac. I. Dom. 1616.) and 
at the same time a lease of the garden, opposite to S. Al- 
ban's hall, was let to his father for 27 yeares. 

1636. The king, queen, prince Rupert, many of the nobility 
and others came from Woodstock into Oxon. a little 
before which time he was conveyed in a servant's armes, 
with his father and mother, e going" to the lodgings of 
Dr. Tho. lies, canon of Christ Church, whence being 
conveyed to the mount in his garden looking into Fish 
street, he saw the K. qu. and the rest riding downe the 
said street into Ch. Ch. great quadrangle. This was the 
first time he ever saw the said K. and queen, and the first 
time that he ever saw such a glorious traine as that was, 
which he would often talk of when he was a man. 

e Deest in Diario Ant. a Wood. Hearne. 



Aug. 29. 



164O.] LIFE OF WOOD. 7 

They were entertained by the universitie, and by Dr. Aug. 30. 
Laud archb. of Canterbury, at S. John's coll. 

They departed. See the whole story of this entertain- 31. 
ment in Hist. §■ Antiq. Univ. Ooeon. lib. 1. sub an. 1636. 
which Hist, was written by Mr. A. Wood. 

He was put to school to learne the Psalter. And about 1637. 
that time playing before the dore of his father's house, T3 
neare Merton coll. one of the horses, called Mutton, 
belonging to Tho. Edgerley, the university carrier, rode 
over him (as he was going to be watered) and brinYd his 
head very much. This caused a great heaviness for some 
time after in his head, and perhaps a slowness in appre- 
hending with quickness things that he read or heard; 
of which he was very sensible, when he came to reason. 

In the beginning of this yeare his eldest brother 1638. 
Thomas Wood (who was borne at Tetsworth in Oxford- I4 
shire) became one of the students of Christ Church, by 
the favour of Dr. Tho. lies, he being then 14 yeares of 
age. See more of him under the yeares 1642 and 1651. 

He was in his Bible, and ready to go into his Ac- 1639. 
cedence. 15 Car. I. 

His f yonger brother John Wood died, and was buried Mar. 8. 
the day following in Merton coll. church. 

He was put to a Latine school in a little house, neare 1640. 
to the church of S. Peter in the Baylie, and opposite to 
the street, called the North Baylie, which leads from New 
Inn to the = Bocherew. The name of his master he hath 
forgot, but remembers, that he was master of arts and a 
preacher, by a good token, that one of the beadles of the 
universitie did come with his silver staff to conduct him 
from the said little house (a poore thing Grod wot) to the 

f yongest. Diary. Hearne. in truth I cannot tell; sure I am, 

5 Bocherew. What the master's that he was master of arts. In 
name was unless Wirley, Diario. Hearne. 



8 LIFE OF WOOD. [1641. 

church of S. Marie, there to preach a Latin sermon he 
thinks (for it was on a working or school day) before the 
universitie. 
1 64 1. He was translated to New coll. schoole, situated be- 

1 ' ar * tween the west part of the chappell and E. part of the 
cloyster, by the advice, as he usually conceived, of some 
of the fellowes of the said coll. who usually frequented 
his father' s house. One John Maylard, fellow of the 
said coll. was then, or at least lately, the master (after- 
wards rector of Stanton S. John neare Oxon.) and after 
him succeeded Joh. Davys, one of the chaplaynes of 
the said house, whome he well remembers to be h a 
quiet man. 

Nov. His grandmother Penelopie, the widdow of capt. Rob. 

Pettie or Le Petite gent, (his mother's father) died with 
grief at or neare Charlemount in Ireland, the seat of 
her nephew William viscount Caulfield, occasioned by the 
barbarous usuage of her intimate acquaintance (but a 
bigotted Papist) S r . Philim O Neale, who acted the part 
of an arch-traytor and rebell, when the grand rebellion 
broke out in that kingdome 23 October 1641. This 
Penelopie was daughter of Eichard Taverner, lord of 
Wood-Eaton in Oxfordshire, by his second wife, Mary, 
dau. of S r . John Harcourt, K*, of the antient and noble 
family of the Harcourts of Stanton Harcourt in the said 
countie. She was borne at Wood-Eaton in the beginning 
of Sept. 1566, and when shee was about 21 yeares of age 
(being then a most comlie and proper person, as most 
of the Taverners were then, and in after times, some of 
whome he does remember) shee was married to his grand- 
father Robert Pettie before mentioned, then lord of Wy- 
fald or Wiveold, and of other lands, neare to Henlie in 

h In the Diary &c. is added after v a quiet man." Hearne. 



1642.] LIFE OF WOOD. 9 

Oxfordshire, and a tenant to Eaton coll. of a very good 
farme at Costford neare to Bister in the said conntie. 

In the beginning of March his brother Robert, who Mar. 
had lately been taken from the free- school at Thame, 
left Oxon. in order to goe to France with Charles Dufore 
of J Montillet, a kind of a merchant at Bloys. After he 
was setled there, the said Charles was to send his son 
Dennis to Oxon. to live with Robert's father by way of 
exchange for Robert, but the troubles in England soon 
after following, Charles Dufore refused to send his son. 
Wherefore Rob. Wood continuing at Bloys, and in other 
places in the kingdome of France, till the beginning of 
1647 (at which time he was neare 17 yeares of age) he 
return' d to his native place of Oxon. but had utterlie 
forgotten his mother tongue, which was a great trouble 
to his brethren to make him understand what they spoke 
to him. 

In the beginning of this yeare the second brother of 1642. 
A. Wood, named Edward, became one of the portionists 
or postmasters of Merton college, under the tuition of 
Mr. Ralph Button. 

Upon the publication of his majestie's proclamation, 
for the suppressing of the rebellion under the conduct 
and command of Robert earl of Essex, the members of 
the universitie of Oxon. began to put themselves in a 
posture of defence, and especially for another reason, 
which was, that there was a strong report, that divers 
companies of soldiers [were] passing thro' the country, 
as sent from London by the parliament for the securing 
of Banbury and Warwick. Dr. Pink of New coll. the 
deputy-vice-chancellour, called before him to the public 
schooles all the privileged men's armes, to have a view 

1 Montillok, Diar. Hearne. 



10 LIFE OF WOOD. [1642. 

of them : where not onlie privileged men of the universitie 
and their servants, but also many scholars appeared, 
bringing with them the furniture of armes of every col. 
that then k any any. Mr. Wood's father had then armour 
or furniture for one man, viz. a helmet, a back and breast- 
piece, a pyke and a musquet, and other appurtenances : 
and the eldest of his men-servants (for he had then three 
at least) named Thomas Burnham, did appeare in those 
armes, when the scholars and privileged men trained; 
and when he could not train, as being taken up with 
business, the next servant did traine : and much adoe 
there was to keep Thomas, the eldest son, then a student 
of Chr. Ch. and a youth of about 18 yeares of age, from 
putting on the said armour and to traine among the 
scholars. The said scholars and privileged men did som- 
times traine in New coll. quadrangle, in the eye of Dr. 
Rob. Pink, the dep. vicechancellour, then warden of the 
said coll. And it being a novel matter, there was no 
holding of the school-boyes in their school in the cloyster 
from seeing and following them. And Mr. Wood remem- 
bred well, that some of them were so besotted with the 
training and activitie and gaytie therein of some yong 
scholars, as being in a longing condition to be of the 
traine, that they could never be brought to their books 
againe. It was a great disturbance to the youth of the 
citie, and Mr. Wood's father foresaw, that if his sons were 
not removed from Oxon. they would be spoyl'd. 
Oct. 23. The great fight at Edghill in Warwickshire, called 

Keynton-battle, between the armies of K. Ch. I. and his 
parliament was l began'. 

Upon the first newes at Oxon. that the armies were 
going to fight, Mr. Wood's eldest brother Thomas, before 

k L. had any e Diario. Hearne. l Deest in Diario. Hearne. 



1642.] LIFE OF WOOD. 11 

mentioned, left his gowne at the town's end, ran to 
Edghill, did his Majestie good service, return' d on horse- 
back well m accountred, and afterwards was made an 
officer in the king's army. See more in Fasti Oxon. 
written by A. Wood under the year 1642. 

The king with his army of foot, prince Rupert and Oct. 29. 
pr. Maurice, (his two nephews,) prince Charles, and James 
duke of York, (his two sons,) entred into Oxon. 

His father's house, opposite to Merton coll. was taken Nov. 
up for the quarters of John lord Colepeper, Mr. of the 
Rolls, and of the privie councill to his majestie. Where- 
upon Mr. Wood's father with his familie removed to a 
little house in his backside, which he about 2 or 3 yeares 
before had new built. 

About the same time his maj. caused his magazine to 
be put into New college cloister and tower &c. Where- 
upon the master of the school there, with his scholars, 
(among whome A. Wood was one,) were removed to the 
chorister's chamber at the East-end of the common hall 
of the said coll. It was then a dark nasty room, and 
very unfit for such a purpose, which made the scholars 
often complaine, but in vaine. 

His father Thorn. Wood or a Wood, before mention' d, Jan. 19. 
died, being Thursday, about 4 of the clock in the morning, 
to the very great grief and reluctancy of his wife and 
children. He died in his house in the backside before 
mention' d, in the room over the kitchin : and being a 
fat and corpulent man, and therefore his body could not 
keep, he was buried between 8 and 9 of the clock at 
night, on the same day, in the north part of Merton coll. 
outer-chappell or church, neare to the graves of Jam. 
Wood, his yonger brother, who died in Sept. 1629, and 

m Sic. Hearne. 



12 LIFE OF WOOD. [1642. 

Jo. Wood, his soil, whome I have mentioned under the 
yeare 1639. This Tho. Wood (father to A. W.) was 
borne at Islingdon neare London in January 1580, was 
bred in grammar learning in those parts, became a stu- 
dent in Broadgate's hall (now Pemb. coll.) in the yeare 
1600, afterwards one of the clerks, I think, of Corpus 
Christi coll. and, as a member of that house, he was 
admitted bach, of arts on the 15 of Mar. 1603. Before 
which time he had taken to wife an antient and rich 
maid, called Margaret, dau. of Hugh Wood of Kent (of 
the family of the Woods of Waterbury in that county) 
and sister of Hob. Wood, a haberdasher of hats, living at 
the Plow and Harrow on Ludgate hill in London, and to 
Henry Wood, living in Kent. They were married at 
Wood-Eaton in Oxfordshire, where shee lived in the 
house of Rich. Taverner, esq. (uncle to Tho. Wood his 
second wife.) About which time the said second wife, 
named Mary, (who was borne in the said house,) being- 
then a child of about two yeares old, Tho. Wood would 
often take her out of the cradle, dandle her in his armes, 
and would several times say, that he hoped shee would 
live to be his second wife, which accordingly came to pass, 
and was mother to A. Wood. By and with the money 
which Tho. Wood had with the said Margaret, and the 
500/i. which his parents bequeathed to him, he grew rich, 
purchased the house wherein A. Wood was borne, with 
its appurtenances, also the great inne called the Flowr de 
Luce, which I have before mentioned, land in Tetsworth, 
now valued at 45 li. per ann. and lands and tenements in 
other places. In the yeare 1618 the said Tho. Wood was 
actually created bach, of the civil law, had some employ- 
ment in that facultie, and after the death of his said first 
wife, which hapned at Tetsworth 14 July 1621, he took 
to wife Marv Pettie, alias La Petite, mother to A. Wood, 



1643.] klFE OF WOOD; 13 

(the same who had been the child in the cradle before 
mention' d,) by whome having a good portion, and growing 
richer thereupon, he was fined in October 1630 for re- 
fusing the honour of knighthood, a matter then lately 
brought [up] to obtaine money for his majestie's use. 
This money, which was paid by all persons of 40/i. per an. 
that refused to come in and be duVd knights, was called 
knighthood-money. This Thorn. Wood was son of Richard 
Wood, who, when a youth, was brought to Islingdon by 
Rob. Wood his uncle and godfather, as the tradition 
goeth in the family : who giving him good breeding, he 
ever after lived in good fashion. The posterity of the 
said Robert, who have lands and tenements to this day 
in Islingdon, live at Kingston upon Thames in Surry; 
where, and elsewhere, they have an estate, that amounts 
to 2000/i. per an. and have been several times offered the 
degree of baronet. 

It was much lamented by the relations of the father 1643. 
and mother of A. W. that he and his brother Christopher ! 9 Car. I. 
were left yong, wiien their father dyed, and that no body 
was left (because of the raging of the civil warr) to take 
care of them, only a woman. His eldest brother Thomas, 
whome I shall mention under the yeare 1651, was then a 
rude and boisterous soldier. His second brother Edward, 
was now a yong scholar of Trinity coll. (lately of Merton) 
and did in this or in the next yeare beare armes for his 
maj. within the garrison of Oxon. and was so farr from 
being a governour or tutor to others, that he could 
scarcely govern himself; and his 3 d . brother Robert was 
in France in the thirteenth yeare of his age. In this 
condition he continued, and yet went to schoole at New 
coll. but by the great hurry and noise that was this 
yeare in Oxon. and by the absence of his master, he and 
his brother lost much time. 



14 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[1644. 



This yeare the Opiate, which had been given to A. 
Wood by his godfathers and godmother, which was con- 



n It is much to be lamented 
that the necessities of the royal 
party required a supply of this 
nature. Had these valuable ser- 
vices of plate been pledged only 
for a time, and afterwards re- 
deemed by their original posses- 
sors, (which most probably would 
have been the case,) they would 
now have remained as so many 
curious and instructive specimens 
of the state and progress of va- 
rious arts in the kingdom at 
that period. In colleges and 
public bodies this would have 
happened more particularly, who, 
from a laudable gratitude towards 
their benefactors, are always a- 
verse to adapt their furniture to 
the changeable fashions of the 
times. W. & H. 

[The sacrifice of plate either 
given by the loyal to the necessi- 
ties of the king, or forcibly seized 
by the rebel army for the use of 
the parliament, was immense : Bp. 
Tanner has preserved an account 
of the plate sent in from the re- 
spective colleges in 1642 — 3, to be 
coined at the mint in New Inn 
Hall for the king's service. 
The cathedral church 

of Christ 
Jesus college 
Oriel . 
Queens . 
Lincoln . 
University 
Brasennose 



172 
86 
82 

193 
47 
61 

121 



oz. dwt. 
14 



St. Mary Magdalene 296 6 15 

All Souls .... 253 1 19 

Balliol 41 4 o 

Merton 79 11 10 

Trinity 174 7 10 

Exeter 246 5 t 

1856 6 19 

It will be remarked that the 
omissions in this list are New 
College, Corpus, St. John's, Wad- 
ham and Pembroke. There is no 
doubt but that each of these col- 
leges contributed. Corpus sent in 
their plate shortly after the list 
was made, although the exact 
quantity no where appears. In 
New College no record of the trans- 
action has yet been discovered, 
but that society has no plate of 
an age earlier than the reign of 
Charles the Second, (some few 
pieces hereafter enumerated ex- 
cepted,) and in 1643, for the first 
time, appears a charge in the 
bursar's books for glass and 
horn drinking vessels, and shortly 
after for pewter spoons for the 
use of the warden. Wadham, as is 
proved by a document in their 
archives, contributed ioolb. ioz. 
I5dwt. of white, and 231b. 40Z. 
of gilt, plate: Pembroke has 
no plate of an earlier date ; whilst 
the following memorandum, taken 
from the MS. account of the Bas- 
kervilles mentioned under the year 
1658, very satisfactorily accounts 
for the omission of St. John's : and 



644.] 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



15 



siderable, was (with all other plate in Oxon.) carried by 
his majestie's command to the mint at New Inne, and 
there turned into money to pay his majestie's armies. 



in corroboration of the statement, 
the college register of 1642 sets 
down 800/. as the exact sum paid 
over to the king in the first in- 
stance. 

i ■ I am informed by my worthy 
friend Mr. Richard Rod, that 
when King Charles y e first had 
his residence in Oxford, in y e time 
of our civil wars, the king want- 
ing cash to pay his soldiers, he 
was necessitated to send for the 
college plate to coyne money, and 
accordingly had it delivered to 
him. But St. John's colledge 
people being loath to loose the 
memory of their benefactors gave 
y e king a sume of money to y e 
value of it, and so it staid with 
them some time, but y e king's 
urgent occasions for money still 
pressing him forward, he sent to 
demand it a second time, and had 
it ; upon which y e king ordered the 
rebus of Richard Bayly, the then 
president of St. John's 1644, to 
be put on the money coyn'd with 
y e plate. Mr. Rod did help me to 
half a crown of this money, 
wh ch had y e rebus of Rich. Bayly 
on both sides; viz. under y e king 
a horseback on one side, and under 
this motto : — 

REL . PRO . LE . ANG . LI B . PAR. 
The Protestant religion, the laws 
of England, and the privilege of 
parliament." 

It may be added that a few, 



and but a few, reliques of the an- 
cient collegiate plate are still to 
be found in the University; in 
most instances pieces either be- 
stowed by the founders, or given 
by special benefactors, and doubt- 
less saved from the general wreck 
out of a grateful respect to the 
memory of the donors. Thus at 
Exeter college, there is a salt-sel- 
lar of very beautiful workman- 
ship; at Oriel, three pieces, a grace 
cup silver-gilt, given by king Ed- 
ward the Second; a mazer bowl 
and a cocoa-nut set in silver, a 
present from Carpenter, bishop of 
Worcester, about 1470; at Cor- 
pus, a remarkably chaste and fine 
chalice, two salt-sellars, silver-gilt, 
one of exquisite beauty formerly 
Bishop Fox's, and some spoons of 
considerable antiquity; at Queen's, 
the celebrated horn, given by the 
founder according to one tradi- 
tion, by queen Philippa as others 
say, and the communion plate 
(1631 and 1637). At New college 
are several fine pieces; a salt- 
sellar of singular design, an ape 
holding a large crystal enclosed 
in silver gilt, and at the bottom 
satyrs in grotesque attitudes; this, 
together with a bowl of figured 
ware elegantly set in silver, was 
given by archbishop Warham; 
two standing cups with covers, 
one given by Walter Hyll ; and 
three nuts set in silver, one appa- 



16 LIFE OF WOOD. [1644. 

1 644. On Wednesday, being the eve of the Ascension, Robert 

20 Car. 1. ear 2 f Essex, generalissimo of the parliament forces, and 
S r . Will. Waller, going with their forces from Abendon 
over Sanford Ferry, and so thro Cowley, and over Bul- 
lington Green (to the end they might go towards Islip,) 
faced the city of Oxon. for several houres, whilst their 
carriages slipt away behind them. This gave some terror 
to the garrison of Oxon. his maj. being then therein, and 
great talke there was, that a siege would suddenly follow. 
Mr. A. Wood's mother therefore resolving, that he and 
his brother Christopher should be removed out of harme's 
way, she sent them with an horse and man into the 
country : and because the infection was then in Oxon. 
she ordered, that they should be conveyed to Tetsworth, 
ten miles distant from Oxford ; where they continued for 
a fortnight or more in the house of ° Rich. Sciense, then 
called the Catherine Wheel, now a great new built inn of 
brick (1683) at the lower end of the towne. There, I say, 
they continued till it was thought that they had no in- 
fection about them, and then they were conveyed two 



rently of considerable antiquity re- ally belonging to Osney Abbey; 

presenting a vine with its branches and the communion plate at St. 

running up the cup, and hedged John's(i586),NewCollege(i6o2), 

in with a rude paling of silver; a Brasennose (1608), as well as a 

second, not so old, resting on chalice at Balliol (1614), Oriel 

small sculptured angels, the third (1641), Wadham (about 1613), 

given by Catharine Baylie, who are all anterior to the reign of 

died in 1600. At Trinity, a cha- Charles the First, and were proba- 

lice of elaborate work, and in bly concealed during the civil wars 

excellent taste, which there seems from the rapacity of the saints 

no reason to doubt came from the and their soldiers, who, under the 

abbey at St. Alban's, and falling pretence of reform, committed 

into the hands of sir Thomas barefaced robbery wherever they 

Pope, was bestowed by him on obtained access to college or ca- 

his newly founded college. Christ thedral.] 

Church has a large salver origin- ° Ral. in Diario. Hearne. 



1 644 J 



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miles on one side of Tetsworth, to a merkate towne called 
Thame^ and there they were set downe, and conveyed into 
the vicaridge house, neare to, and on the north side of, 
the church, where they were very lovingly received by the 
vicar Mr. Thorn. Henant, and his wife Elizabeth, one of 
the daughters of Leonard Pettie, gent, kinsman to the 
mother of A. and Ch. Wood ; in which house their three 
elder brothers had before sojourned, while they went to 
the free-school P in Thame. Afterwards they were entred 
into the said school, there to be educated till they were fit 
to be academians or apprentices. The master of that 
school was q William. Burt, Mr. of A. sometimes fellow of 



p in Thame, founded by John 
Lord Williams of Thame. After- 
wards Diar. Hearne. 

1 He married Elizabeth daugh- 
ter of Maximilian Pettie of Thame 
by Eliz. his wife daughter of 
Robert Waller of Beacons field, 
Bucks. She died at the lodgings 
of her son in law, in New college 
Oxford, on the 25th of Sept. 1683. 
or thereabouts, and was buried 
on the 28th, at the upper end of 
the chancel of Thame, near the 
grave of her father. 

The aforesaid William Burt, 
D. D. and Eliz. his wife, left be- 
hind them the following issue : 

1. Maximilian Pettie, who mar- 
ried - - - - 

2. Elizabeth the wife of Henry 
Beeston, LL. D. rector of Wallop, 
schoolmaster of Winchester col- 
lege, and afterwards warden of 
New college. 

3. Ann the wife of Robert 
Hawking, D.D. a Wiltshire man. 

4. Judith the wife of Henry 
WOOD, VOL. I. 



Bardshaw, D. D. prebendary of 
Winchester, who died about 1690. 
5. Mary the wife of ■ — Brooks, 
a minister. 

Arms. On a Chevron Gules, 
3 Crosslets Or, between 3 
Bugle Horns Sable, im- 
paling quarterly Or and A- 
zure, on a Bend Vert, 3 
Martletts Or : Pettie. 
See Fasti Oxon. under the 
year 1658 : — Wood MSS. in mus. 
Ashm. 8466. F. 4 :— Gale's Hist. 
of the Cath. of Winton. 

Near the hospital, on the south 
side of the church at Thame, is 
the free school founded by sir 
John Williams viscount Thame ; 
at the east end of which are the 
names of the masters, with the 
times when they began; viz. 

1. Edwardus Harris, anno 1575. 

2. Richard Bouchier . 1597. 

3. Hugo Evans . . . 1627. 

4. gVLIeLMVs BVrte peDa- 
gogVs qVartVs (mdllxxxi.) 

5. Guliel. Ailiff . . . 1647. 

c 



18 LIFE OF WOOD. [1644. 

New coll. who before had married Elizabeth, one of the 
daughters of Maximilian Pettie of Thame and Tetsworth, 
kinsman to their mother. Which Will. Burt was after- 
wards schoolmaster of Wykeham/s school neare Winches- 
ter, warden of the coll. there, and Dr. of divinity. The 
usher of the said school was one David Thomas, bach, of 
arts of Jesus coll. who before had married a maid of ordi- 
nary note, but handsome. Shee had several yeares lived 
in the parish where A. and Ch. Wood were borne, and 
Anne Price, her sirname, I think, was Price, having been brought up 
under [her] kinswoman or aunt called Joane Evans, who 
kept a publick house, now knowne by the name of the 
Magpie, in the same parish. 

The said D. Thomas was afterwards the second master 
of the free-school of Dorchester in Oxfordshire, founded 
by Joh. Eeteplace, Esq. and at length master of a well 
endowed school at Leycester, the chief towne in Leyces- 
tershire, where he continued till the time of his death, in 
Aug. 1667, having before obtained a comfortable estate 



6. Hugo Willis . . . 1655. culiarly rare volume in folio, con- 
MSS.Wood.Mus. Ashm. 8586. taining the foundation deeds and 

W. & H. statutes of the school, printed at 

[To these may be added : — London by Vautrollier, (although 

7. Thomas Middleton 1675. without his name,) and thus en- 
S.Henry Bruges . . 1694. titled :" 1575. Schola Thamensis 
9. William Lamplugh, ex fvndatione Iohannis VVil- 

June 10, 1727. liamsMilitis domini Williams de 

10. James Fussell, July 27, 1727. Thame God saue the Queene." It 

11. Rob. Wheeler, Apr. 7, 1729. contains A to K in fours j then 
T2. John Kipling, June 13, 1729.. L M and N having two leaves 

13. William Cooke . . 1773. only; and concludes with an ap- 

14. William Stratford . 1786. pendix of twelve pages. A copy 

15. Timothy Tripp Lee 18 14. on vellum is in the British Mu- 

16. Thomas Broadley seum among the books bequeath- 

Fooks .... 1841. ed by the Right Hon. Thomas 

Connected with this place of Grenville.] 
education we may mention a pe- 



1 644.] LIFE OF WOOD. 19 

by the great paines he took in pedagogie, and by the 
many [sojournours] that he alwaies kept in his house. 

It was observed by the vicar Mr. Henant, while A. 
Wood sojourned in his house, that the said A. Wood was 
very sedulous, was alwaies up and readie the first in the 
house, and alwaies ambitious of being first in the school 
in the morning ; and if any way hindred, he would be apt 
to cry and make a noise, to the disturbance of the family, 
as Mr. Henant hath several times told him, when he was 
Mr. of arts. 

A. Wood did partly remember, that he was much re- 
tired, walked mostly alone, was given much to thinking 
and melancholy; which sometimes made his night's rest 
so much disturbed, that he would walk in his sleep (only 
with his shirt on) and disturb and fright people of the 
house, when they were going to their respective beds, 
2 or 3 houres after he had taken up his rest. This 
also, besides his owne memorie, he hath been often told 
by his cozen Henant the wife, who lived at Great Milton 
neare Oxon, in the house of his cozen Joh. Cave, after 
her husband's death. 

On Sunday the r 8 of Octob. hapned a dreadfull fire in Oct. 8. 
Oxon. such a one (for the shortness of the time, wherein 
it burned) that all ages before could hardly paralel. It 
began about two of the clock in the afternoon in a little 
poore house, on the south side of Thames street (leading 
from the north gate to high bridg) occasioned by a foot- 
soldier's roasting a pigg, which he had stoln. The wind 
being verie high, and in the north, blew the flames 
southward very quick and s strangly, and burnt all houses 
and stables (except S. Marie's coll.) standing between the 

r Sic MS. Neque aliter in ipso sub hoc anno. Hearne. 
etiam Diario. Sed 6 reponend. s Sic- Neque aliter in Diario. 

Vide Hist, fy Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Hearne. 

c2 



20 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 

back-part of those houses, that extend from the north 
gate to S. Martin's church on the east, and those houses 
in the North Baylie, called New inn lane, on the west : 
then all the old houses in the Bocherew (with the Bo- 
cherew it self) which stood between S. Martin's church 
and the church of S. Peter in the Baylie; among which 
were two which belonged to A. Wood's mother, besides 
the stables and back-houses belonging to the Flowr de 
Luce, which were totally consumed, to her great loss, and 
so consequently to the loss of her sons, as they afterwards 
evidently found it. 
1645. While A. Wood and his brother Christopher continued 
21 Car. I. a £ fphame, you cannot imagine, twas great disturbances 
they suffered by the soldiers of both parties, somtimes 
by the parliament soldiers of Aylesbury, somtimes by 
the king's from B or stall house, and somtimes from the 
king's at Oxon. and at Wallingford. The chiefest dis- 
turbances and afFrightments, that they and the family, 
wherein they lived, endured, were these. 

On the 27 of January, being Munday, an. 1644. colonel 
Tho. Blagge, governour of Wallingford- castle, roving 
about the country very early with a troop of stout hors- 
men, consisting of 70 or 80 at most, met with a partie 
of parliament eirs or rebells, of at least 200, at Long 
Crendon, about a mile northward from Thame: which 
200 belong'd to the garrison of Aylesburie, and being 
headed by a Scot, called colonel Crafford, who, as I 
think, was governour of the garrison there, they pre- 
tended, that they were looking out quarters for them. 
I say, that col. Blagge and his partie, meeting with these 
rebells at Long Crendon, fought with, and made them 
run, till his men following them too eager [ly] were over- 
power' d with multitudes, that afterwards came in to their 
1 L. what e Diario. Hearne. 



1 645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 21 

assistance, (almost treble his number) at which time he 

himself with his stout captaine Walter (they two 

only) fought against a great many of the rebells for a 
long while together ; in which encounter the brave colonel 
behaved himself as manfully with his sword, as ever man 
did, slashing and beating so many fresh rebells with such 
courage and dexterity, that he would not stirr, till he had 
brought off all his owne men, whereof the rebells kild 
but two (not a man more) tho they took sixteen, who 
stayed too long behind. Captain Walter had six rebells 
upon him, and, according to his custome, fought it out so 
gallantly, that he brought himself off with his colonel, 
and came home safe to Wallingford with all their men, 
except 18. Col. Blagge was cut over the face, and had 
some other hurts, but not dangerous. 

After the action was concluded at Crendon, and Blagge 
and his men forced to fly homeward, they took part of 
Thame in their way. And A. W. and his fellow- sojourners 
being all then at dinner in the parlour with some strangers 
there, of whome their master Burt and his wife were of 
the number, they were all alarum' d with their approach : 
and by that time they could run out of the house into the 
backside, to look over the pale that parts it from the 
common road, they saw a great number of horsmen post- 
ing towards Thame over Crendon bridge, about a stone's 
cast from their house (being the out and only house on 
that road, before you come into Thame) and in the head 
of them was Blagge with a bloody face, and his party 
with capt. Walter following him. The number, as was 
then guessed by A. W. and those of the family, was 50 
or more, and they all rode under the said pale and close 
by the house. They did not ride in order, but each made 
shift to be foremost; and one of them riding upon a 
shelving ground, opposite to the dore, his horse slip'd, fell 



%2 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 

upon one side, and threw the rider (a lusty man) in 
A. Wood's sight. Colonel Crafford, who was well u hors'd 
at a pretty distance before his men in pursuite, held a 
pistol to him ; but the trooper crying quarter, the rebells 
came up, rifled him, and took him and his horse away 
with them. Crafford rode on without touching him, and 
ever or anon he would be discharging his pistol at some 
of the fag-end of Blagg's horse, who rode thro the west 
end of Thame, called Priest-end, leading towards EAcot. 

Whether Crafford and his men followed them beyond 
x Thame, I think not, but went into the towne, and 
refreshed themselves, and so went to Aylesbury. I find 
one Laurence Crafford, the sixth son of Hugh Crafford 
(of the same family, which is noble, of Kilbourne) to have 
been borne in his father's castle at Jordan hill neare 
y Gloscow in Scotland, on the cal. of Nov. 1611, and to 
have received some education in Gloscow. Afterwards it 
appeares, that he went beyond the seas, and served in the 
warrs for eleven yeares under Gustavus and Christianus, 
kings of Sweedland, in Germany, and afterwards for the 
space of three yeares he was a z protobune of horse under 
Charles Lewis elector Palatine. In 1641 he was sent into 
Ireland by the parliament of England to fight against the 
rebells, where he served in the quality of a tribune for 
two yeares, and in 1643 he was sent for from thence by 
Major ge- the pari, of England, and made legatus secundus under 

neral. 

Edw. earl of Manchester, and afterwards in the Scotch 
expedition. At length when the Scots besieged Hereford, 
he was kiFd with a bullet, shot from the works, on the 
17 of Aug. 1645, aged 34 yeares : whereupon his body 

u hors'd and at in Diario. think they did not, but went. 

Hearne. Hearne. 

x Sic MS. At in Diario : in y Sic. Hearne. 

truth I cannot now tell: but I z Sic. Hearne. 



1 645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 23 

being carried off to the city of Glocester, it was buried 
there in the larg chappel at the east end of the choire, 
called our ladie's chappel, within the cathedral there, and 
soon after had a very fair monument set or fastned on 
the north wall neare to his grave, containing the propor- 
tion of a man to the middle (or the bust of a man) in 
white marble, with a short staff in his right hand, which 
monument continuing in it's luster till after the restora- 
tion of K. Ch. 2. it was then ordered to be plucked downe 
by the bishop, deane and prebends. This Laurence Craf- 
ford seems to be the same person with colonel Crafford 
before mentioned, who, I think, was governour of Ayles- 
bury in Bucks for a time. As for colonel Blagge, who 
was borne of an antient and gentile familie in Suffolke, he 
suffered much between the declension of the king's cause 
and the restoration of K. Ch. 2. by exile and several im- 
prisonments; but after the [king was] restored, he was 
rewarded with the governourship of Yarmouth and other 
things in Norfolk ; yet being just setled, and in capacity 
of spending the remainder of his dayes in ease and quiet- 
ness, he died, to the great grief of his family and relations, 
within the city of Westminster, on the 14 of Nov. 1660, 
aged 47 yeares : whereupon his body was buried in the 
great north isle, joyning to the church of S. Peter (com- 
monly called the abbey church) within the said citie. 

The next great disturbance, whereby A. W. and his 
fellow sojournours were alarum' d at Thame, was this. In 
the latter end of Apr. 1645, a famous Buckinghamshire 
commander, called capt. - - - Phips the ragman, was 
in Thame with 20 horse and dragoons, to guard their 
committee for the excise (the chief of which committee 
were Goodman Heywood and Goodman a [Hen] the butcher 

a E Diario, e quo et alia itidem, uncis inclusa, restituimus. Hearne. 



24 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 

his servant) and tarrying there two dayes or more, S r . 
Will. Campion, governour of Borstall house, having re- 
ceived notice of them, sent out his captaine lievetenant, 
called capt. - - - - Bunce, with a partie of 20 horse, who 
instantly marching thither over Crendon bridg, as it seems, 
and so by the vicaridge house, drove them thro the towne 
of Thame. Whereupon Phips and his committee flying 
pretty fast, till they came to the bridg below Thame mill 
(which is eastward and a little by north about a stone V 
cast from the vicar's house) the[y] faced about, hoping to 
make good the bridg with their dragoons. But this va- 
liant captaine Bunce, after he had received a volley from 
Phips and his partie (which touched only one common 
soldier slightlie) charged over the bridg, and with his 
pistols shot one of them dead, and beat them off the 
bridg, so as they all ran away, but lost just half their 
number ; for besides him that was killed, there were nine 
taken, whereof two were cap. Phips himself and his liev- 
tenant, ten only escaping, most of which had marks be- 
stowed on them. 

Capt. Bunce returned safe to Borstall with 9 prisoners, 
10 horses, six fire-lock musquets, and 4 case of pistols. 
This is that Bunce, who shot the pillaging Scot, called 
major Jecamiah Abercromy (belonging, I think, to Ayles- 
bury garrison) neare Stretton-Audley in Oxfordshire; 
which entring deep into his side, fell from his horse on 
the 7 of March 1 644 : so that being carried off prisoner, 
with others, to Borstall house, died there soon after, 
full of sorrow for his activity in the rebellion against 
K. Ch. I. 

Another great alarme to the juvenile muses in the vi- 
caridge house, particularly to A. W. was this. Colonel 
Rich. Greaves, a most confiding presbyterian, laying 
couchant for a considerable time in Thame with a great 



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25 



partie of horse (upon what account I can not tell) in the 
beginning of Sep. 1645, it was knowne among the chief 
officers in Oxon. Whereupon col. Will. Legge the govern- 
our thereof, resolving to beat up him and his partie, he 
sent 400 horse from Oxon. commanded by col. b David 
Walter (high-sheriff of the countie) and col. Rob. Legge 
the governour's brother. These, with 60 musquetiers of 
the governour^s regiment (commanded by captaine - - - 
Burgh) marched forth from Oxon. in the afternoon of 
Saturday Sept. 6, and before they c came to Thame, they 
divided into two bodies, the van headed by col. Walter 
and the reer by col. R. Legge. They found the towne 
very strongly barricaded at every avenue : notwithstanding 
which, major - - - Medcalf (maj. to coll. Rob. Legge) 
charged the rebells guards, so as maj. Medcalfe with 7 
troopers leapt from their horses, and removing the carts 



b In a recess on the north side 
of Wolvercote church com. Oxon. 
is an elegant monument of sir 
John Walter. His effigy is as big 
as the life dressed in his robes, 
laying between his two wives, with 
his and their arms depicted on 
the top of the tomb, his three sons 
kneeling at his feet and his three 
daughters at his head. For the 
inscription see Le Neve's Monum. 
Angl. 

In the same recess on the north 
wall is a bust, under which is this 
inscription : 

Here lieth the Bodie of David 
Walter of Godstow Esq. the se- 
cond Son of S r . John Walter Lord 
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 
Groom of the Bedchamber to King 
Charles the second and Lieute- 



nant General of the Ordnance, 
which Office his Majesty gave him 
as a Reward of the great Valour 
and Loyalty he had shewed in the 
Service of his Father of Glorious 
Memory, during the Civil Wars. 
He was born at Sarsden in this 
county, married Elizabeth the 
Widdow of Francis Lord Dacre, 
of Herstmonceaux in Sussex, by 
whom he had no issue : Died at 
London the 2 2d of April 1679, 
and in the 68th Year of his Age. 

The above monument of sir 
John Walter is a curious piece of 
workmanship, and was highly 
painted and adorned, but through 
length of time and want of repair 
is greatly decayed. W. & H. 

c came neare to Thame, Diar. 
Hearne. 



26 LIFE OF WOOD. [ J 645* 

opened the avenue d . This Hone, the two gallant majors 
charged the rebells up thro the street, doing execution al 
the way to the marketplace, where col. Greaves himself 
stood with about 200 horse drawn up; but col. Walter 
being ready with the other troops (viz. his owne, that of 
col. Tooker and that of major Trist) gave the rebels such 
a charg, as made them fly out of the towne; and after 
pursuing the fugitive rebels, drove them above half a mile 
from Thame. In the meane while col. Legge, who with the 
reere guarded the towne and avenews, least other of the re- 
bells (being in all 800) should break in and desert the whole, 
now drew into the towne, that others might have secure 
time to search houses and stables. Orders were given, and 
'twas done accordingly. After which they all drew out of the 
towne, and marched away with their horses and prisoners. 
Before they had gone two miles, at least 200 rebels were 
got in their reere, but then col. Legge charged them so 
gallantly, that the rebels ran back, much faster than they 
came on. Yet farr had they not gone, before these vexed 
rebels came on againe, and then also col. Legge beat them 
so farr back, that they never attempted to come on againe. 
In this last charge that most hopeful yong gentleman 
e capt. Hen. Gardiner (son of S r . Tho. Gardiner, his ma- 

d By col. R. Legge opened from their horses, and, removing 

the avenue.] By col. Rob. Legge. the carts, opened the avenue. Diar. 

They found the towne very strong- Hearne. 

ly barricadoed at every avenue : e S r . Thomas Gardiner of Cud- 

notwithstanding which, major desden in Oxfordshire, Kt. son of 

. . . Medcalfe (maj. to col. Rob. the recorder of London, and a 

Legg) gallantly led up the forlorne captain of horse unto the king, 

hope, charged the rebells guard, was buried in the cathedral of 

& maintained his ground so hand- Chr. Church, 25 July 1645, under 

somly, that major Aglionby com- Alexander Gerard's monument, 

ing up to his assistance, the rebels He was knighted by his majesty, 

were beat off the guards, so as whilst he sate at dinner, upon 

maj. Medcalf with 7 troopers leapt delivery of the news of prince 



1 645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 27 

jestie's sollicitor gen.) was unfortunately shot dead; a 
youth of such high incomparable courage, mix'd with such 
abundance of modesty and sweetness, that wee cannot 
easily match him unless with his brave brother, yong S r . 
Thomas Gardiner, which two are now buried both in one 
grave in the cathedral of Christ Church in Oxon. whether 
they were brought with much universal sorrow and af- 
fection. 

Besides this gallant gentleman, no officer was killed, 
only 3 common soldiers, nor scarce any hurt, only e Maj. 
Medcalfe shot in the arme. The rebels dropt plentifully 
in the street and in the fields, and col. Greaves escaped 
very narrowly, being run into the body, and at first thought 
to have been slaine. f The rebells being thus beaten, his 

Rupert's success against the rebels to the governour of OXON. 

that had besieged Newark ( . . . . Legg) when the cavaliers 

March 164I. beat up the parliament quarters at 

Henry Gardiner a captain of Thame, and receiving wounds 

horse 2d son of sir Thomas Gar- there, died of them, 

diner killed at Thame when the He was buried in St. Peter's 

cavaliers beat up the qrs. of the church in the East, 

parliamentarians there : 7 Sept. Wood's MSS. in museo Ashm. 

1645, an d was buried by his fa- 8466. fol. 77. W. & H. 

ther. Wood's MSS. in mus. f And that 'twas currently re- 

Ashm. 8466. f. 76. W. & H. ported in Oxford, that he was 

e Captain Scrope Medcalf a slain, may appear from the fol- 
Yorkshire man died in the house lowing passage I have entered in 
of John Egerly against University vol. 88. p. 71. of my MSS. col- 
college in the parish of St. Peter lections from a letter, in the Ash- 
in the East, 13 Sept. 1645. He molean museum, written by Mr. 
commanded the troop belonging W. B. [W. Browne] *to his pupil 

* William Browne, B.D. was bom at Churchill in Dorsetshire, of which 
place his father was rector, and educated at Blandford under Mr. Gardiner. 
He was elected scholar of Trinity college in Oxford in 1635, an( ^ became 
actual fellow thereof in 1 643 . He had the character of an ingenious man, a 
good scholar, and as admirable a disputant as any of his time in the university. 
Mr. Aubrey says that he had the happiness to be his pupil. He was pre- 
sented by Dr. Morley Bp. of Winchester to the vicarage of Farnham in 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[1645. 



majesties forces brought away those prisoners they had 
taken, which, besides common troopers, were 27 officers : 
among whome were their adjutant-general - - - - s Puide, 
their provost-general marshall (or prov. marshal general) 
and their chief engineer, four captaines, as capt. Hanson, 
Joh. Thornhill, James the elder &c. seven lievtenants, 
viz. Wilmot, Hughes, Bagnall, Lampert, Canne, Wilson, 
Crompton, and three cornets, Bradshaw, Brooks and 
Symons. There were also taken 13 sergeants, quarter- 
masters and corporalls, and a great deal of money was found 
in the rebels' pockets (having lately received advance- 
money). Many armes also were taken, and between two 
and three hundred good horse, besides three colours, two 



the famous John Aubrey, esq. 
on Tuesd. Sept. 9. 1645. from 
Oxford, which Mr. B. stiles him- 
self G. Fuscus in some letters in 
Latin (to the said Mr. Aubrey) 
which I have seen in the same 
museum. " Sunday morning last 
" our horse from Oxon. fell on the 
" enemies quarters at Thame, 
" where were some 300 horse re- 
" formadoes. All the quarters 
" thereabout made some 6 or 700 
" horse and dragoons. Wee fell 
" on them unexpectedly, kill['d] 
" andtooke 100 of them (amongst 
" the taken was a Dutch man 
" their agitant generall, amongst 
" the slaine col. Greaves, hee that 
" kept Lichfield against prince 
" Rupert) and 200 horse. They 



" panies and pursued us in the 
" reare, havinge alsoe some helpe 
iC from Alisburie &c. but were 
" repulsed with losse ; onely in 
" the last charge wee lost captain 
" Henrie Gardiner, son to Sr. 
" Thomas Gardiner the kings sol- 
" licitour, whose losse is generally 
" lamented, not onely in regarde of 
" his valour, sweet disposition and 
" hopefull carriage, but 'cause too 
" his brother, younge Sr. Thomas, 
" was slaine in the same raan- 
" ner not past a month since." 
Hearne. 

s Over against this word, in the 
margin of the Diary is written 
Puid. See Micro-chron. at the end 
of Quer. Cant. an. 1645. in Sept. 
Hearne. 



" gathered up their scattered com- 

Surrey, at which place he died Oct. 21. 1669; about the 51 or 52 year of his 
age of the small pox, caught by burying a corps which died of that disease, 
and was buried in the chancell there without any memorial. 

See Aubrey's History of Surrey, vol. iii. page. 335. — Trin. coll. Register. 
W. & H. 



1645.] LIFE OF WOOD. 29 

whereof had mottos. The one was, Non Reos Res, and the 
other was, R atria poscente paratus. 

This alarm and onset was made by the cavaliers from 
Oxon. about break of day on Sunday morning Sept. 7. 
before any of the rebels were stirring. But by the alarm 
taken from the sentinel, that stood at that end of the 
towne leading to Oxon. many of them came out of their 
beds into the market place without then doublets ; whereof 
adj. gen. Puide was one, who fought in his shirt. Some 
that were quartered near the church as in Vincent Barry's 
house between it and the school, h and in the vicar's house 
(where A. W. then sojourned) fled into the church (some 
with their horses also) and going to the top of the tower, 
would be peeping thence to see the cavaliers run into the 
houses, where they quartered, to fetch away their goods. 

There were about 6 of the parliament soldiers (troopers) 
that quartered in the vicar's house, and one being slow 
and careless, was ahing and warming his boots, while 
they were fighting in the towne : and no sooner he was 
withdrawne, into the garden I think, but some of the ca- 
valiers, who were retiring with their spoyle towards Bors- 
tall (for they had separated themselves from those that 
went to Oxon.) ran into the vicar's house, and seized on 
cloaks and goods of the rebels, while some of the said 
rebels (who had locked themselves up in the church) were 
beholding out of the ch. windows what they were doing. 

On the day before (Saturday) some of the said rebels, 
that lodged in the said house, had been progging for 
venison in Thame park I think, and one or two pasties of 
it were made, and newly put into the oven before the 
cavaliers entred into the house. But so it was, that none 
of the said rebels were left at eleven of the clock to eat 

h And those in Diarium. Hearne. 



30 LIFE OF WOOD. [1645. 

the said pasties, so their share fell among the school-boyes, 
that were sojournours in the said house. 

As for the beforemention'd adj. gen. Puid, he had leave 
within 3 days after he was brought to Oxon. to depart 
upon his parol ; yet wanted the civility, either to returne 
himself, or to release the gentleman, (or any other) that 
he had promised in exchange for him. Such, and no 
better, is the faith and humanity of the rebels. 

Besides these, were other alarms and skirmishes, which 
being frequent and of little concern, yet much to the 
school-boyes, who were interrupted thereby, I shall for- 
beare the recital of them. They had also several times 
troopers from Borstal, who would watch and be upon the 
guard in the vicaridge house (the out-house northward 
from Thame, as I have before told you) and continue there 
a whole night together, while some of their partie were 
upon London road neare Thame, to lay in wait for pro- 
vision or wine that came from London towards Aylesbury, 
or to any persons thereabouts that took part with the 
rebells. Some of these troopers would discourse with the 
school-boyes, that lived in the house (being of the number 
of six, or somtimes more) while they were making their 
exercise in the hall against the next day. Some of them 
A. W. found to have grammar learning in them, * as'' by 
the questions they proposed to the boys ; and others hav- 
ing been, or lived, in Oxon. knew the relations of A. W. 
which would make them shew kindness to him and his 
brother. But that which A. W. observed, was, that the 
vicar and his wife were alwaies more kind to the pari, 
soldiers or rebells, than to the cavaliers, as his master 
W. Burt and his wife were, having been alwaies acquainted 
with and obliged to the families of the Ingoldesbies and 

Deest in Diario. Hearne. 



1646.] LIFE OF WOOD. 31 

Hamdens in Buckinghamshire, and other puritanical and 
factious families in the said countie ; who, while yong, had 
been mostly bred in the said school of Thame, and had 
sojourned either with the vicar or master : but as for the 
usher Dav. Thomas, a proper stout Welshman, A. W. 
alwaies took [him] to be a good loyalist, as indeed 
he was. 

Wednesday Jun. 10, the garrison of Borstall was sur- 1646. 
reudred for the use of the parliament. The school-boys 22 Car - *• 
were allowed by their master a free libertie that day, and 
many of them went thither (4 miles distant) about 8 or 9 
of the clock in the morning, to see the forme of surrender, 
the strength of the garrison, and the soldiers of each 
partie. They, and particularly A. W. had instructions 
given to them before they went, that not one of them 
should either tast any liquor, or eat any provision in the 
garrison; and the reason was, for feare the royal partie, 
who were to march out thence, should mix poyson among 
the liquor or provision that they should leave there. But 
as A. W. remembred, he could not get into the garrison, 
but stood, as hundreds did, without the works, where he 
saw the governour S r . Will. Campion, a little man, who 
upon k some occasion laid flat on the ground on his belly, 
to write a letter, or bill, or the form of a pass, or some 
such thing. 

Wednesday and Midsomer day, the garrison of Oxon. 
which was the chiefest hold the king had, and wherein 
he had mostly resided while the civil warr continued, was 
surrendred for the use of the parliament, as most of his 
garrisons were this yeare, occasioned by the fatal battle of 
Naseby, which hapned in the last yeare, wherein the king 
and his partie were in a woful manner worsted. In the 

k Some occasion or other laydflat Diar. Hearne. 



32 LIFE OF WOOD. [1646. 

evening of the said day, many of the king's foot partie, 
that belonged to the said garrison, came into Thame, and 
layd downe their armes there, being then a wet season. 
Some of whome continuing there the next day, A. W. 
went into the towne to see them. He knew some of their 
faces and they his, but he being a boy, and having no 
money, he could not then relieve them, or make them 
drink : yet he talked with them about Oxford and his 
relations and acquaintance there ; for the doing of which 
he was checked when he came home. 

In the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Sept. follow- 
ing his brother Edw. Wood bach, of arts and scholar of 
Trinity coll. came on foot from Oxon. with Leonard Pettie 1 
(the brother of the wife of his cozen Henant the vicar) 
and another scholar to see him and his brother, the vicar 
and the master and their wives. They continued at least 
two nights in the vicar's house, and great kindness was 
expressed by them towards A. W. and his brother Christop. 
whom, the next day, the said Edward told, that they were 
soon after to return to Oxon. that their mother had much 
suffered in her estate by the late dreadful fire in Oxon. 
and therefore was not able to maintaine them any longer 
at school in Thame, &c. A. W. seemed very sorry at this 
news, because he was well and warme where he was, had 
good companie, and seem'cl to have a fix'd love for the 
place, even so much, that he did never afterwards care to 
hear of New coll. school to have given him scholastical 

1 [We whose names are under- them. Willm. Sellar, Alexander 
written do testify, that beinge with Fisher. Administration was grant- 
Mr. George Petty on Monday y e ed March 3. Archiv. Univ. Oxon. 
7 day of Feb. 1630. and askinge Maximilian Pettye get. 15, Chris- 
him howe he would bestowe his topher Pettye set. 13, George 
estate, his an s were was that he left Pettye set. n, were matriculated 
it to his two brothers Mr. Leonard of Brasenose Oct. 13. 1598. Reg. 
Petty and Mr. Maximilian Petty Matric. P.] 
to be divided equally betweene 






1645-] LIFE 0F wood. 33 

education; but applied all he had to that of Thame &c. 
But there was no remedy, for go he must, and go he did 
with his brother after Michaelmas following. 

After his returne to the house of his nativity, he found 
Oxford empty, as to scholars, but pretty well replenished 
with parliamentarian soldiers. Many of the inhabitants 
had gained great store of wealth from the court and royal- 
lists, that had for several yeares continued among them ; 
but as for the yong men of the city and university, he 
found many of them to have been debauched by bearing 
armes, and doing the duties belonging to soldiers, as 
watching, warding, and sitting in tipling-houses for whole 
nights together. His mother put his brother Christopher 
to school in Oxon. and himself to the tuition of his brother 
Edward of Trinity college, to whom he went once or twice 
in a day to receive instruction, and alwaies spent every 
afternoon in his chamber, which was a cockleloft over the 
common gate of that college. 

While he continued in this condition, his mother would 
alwaies be soliciting him to be an apprentice, which he 
could never endure to heare of : and somtimes she would 
tell him, that she would set him out to an attorney or 
sollicitor, and he remembred well, that she often mentioned 
M r . Joh. Theyer, a sollicitor (of whom shall be mention 
made under the yeare m 166. .) as a fit master for him, 
but still he drew back and turned his eare. n Nay she 
was so silly, that she would several times propose to 
him some inferior mechanical trade, because she found 



m See under the year 1668. kitchin-ware, lanthorns, and such 
Hearne. like trivial things, because she 



n Nay shee was so silly, that found me to have a mechanical 

shee would several times forsooth head, and alwaies at leisure times 

propose to me the trade of a tinner active in framing little baubles, 

or tin-man, or a man that makes Diar. Hearne. 

WOOD, VOL. I. D 



1647. 



34 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 47- 

him to have a mechanical head, and alwaies at leisure 

times very active in framing little trivial things or 

baubles. 

A. "Wood was matriculated as a member of the univer- 

23 Car. I. sity and a gentleman's son. This was done by his brother 
May 26. Edward, who obtained a certificate, that he was matricu- 
lated, from Matth. Cross the superior beadle of law, which 
he kept by him to the time of his death. But afterwards 
when he was master of arts, and had a full sight of the 
matriculation books, he could not find his name regestred 
in any of them. 
Oct. 18. St. Luke's day and Munday he was entred into the 

buttery-book of Merton college, being about that time 
made by M r . Edw. Copley, fellow of that house, his post- 
master, and put into the chamber under him in the great 
quadrangle. He had not then any tutor in that coll. but 
continued still under the instruction of his brother Edw. 
in Trin. coll. 

At that time Christmas appearing, there were fires of 
charcole made in the common hall on Allsaints eve, All- 
saints day and night, on the holydayes, ° their nights and 
eves between that time and Christmas day. Then on 
Christmas eve, Chris tm. day and holydayes and their 
nights, and on Candlemas eve, Candlemas day and night. 
At all these fires every night, which began to be made 
a little after five of the clock, the senior under-graduats 
would bring into the hall the juniors or freshmen be- 
tween that time and six of the clock, and there make 
them sit downe on a forme in the middle of the hall, 
joyning to the declaiming desk : which done, every one in 
order was to speake some pretty apothegme, or make a 
jest or bull, or speake some eloquent nonsense, to make 

And their Diar. 



1647.] LIFE 0F wood. 35 

the company laugh : but if any of the freshmen came off 
dull, or not cleverly, some of the forward or pragmatical 
seniors would tuck them, that is, set the nail of their 
thumb to their chin, just under p the lipp, and by the help 
of their other fingers under the chin, they would give him 
a mark, which somtimes would produce blood. On Can- 
dlemas day, or before (according as Shrove-Tuesday fell 
out) every freshman had warning given him to provide 
his speech, to be spoken in the publick hall before the 
under- graduats and servants on Shrove-Tuesday night that 
followed, being alwaies the time for the observation of that 
ceremony. According to the said summons A. Wood pro- 
vided a speech as the other freshmen did. 

Shrove-Tuesday Feb. 15, the fire being made in the Feb. 15. 
common hall before 5 of the clock at night, the Fellowes 
would go to supper before six, and making an end sooner 
than at other times, they left the hall to the libertie of the 
under-graduats, but with an admonition from one of the 
fellowes (who was the principal of the under-graduats and 
postmasters) that all things should be carried in good 
order. While they were at supper in the hall, the cook 
(Will. Noble) was making the lesser of the brass pots ful 
of cawdel at the Q freshman' s charge; which, after the 
hall was free from the fellows, was brought up and set 
before the fire in the said hall. Afterwards every fresh- 
man, according to seniority, was to pluck off his gowne 
and band, and if r possibly to make himself look like a 
scoundrell. This done, they were conducted each after 
the other to the high table, and there made to stand on a 
forme placed thereon; from whence they were to speak 
their speech with an audible voice to the company : which 

p The lower lip, in Diario. men's. Hearne. 
Hearne. r Potius, possible. Hearne. 

q Sic etiam in Diario. F. Fresh- 



36 LIFE OF WOOD. [1647. 

if well done, the person that spoke it was to have a cup of 
cawdle and no salted drinke : if indifferently, some cawdle 
and some salted drink ; but if dull, nothing was given to 
him but salted drink, or salt put in college beere, with 
tucks to boot. Afterwards when they were to be ad- 
mitted into the fraternity, the senior cook was to admin- 
ister to them an oath over an old shoe, part of which runs 
?jfcnm- thus : Item tu jurabis, quod pennikgg fceitc!) non s visitabis, 
. * ttcJ &c. the rest is forgotten, and none there are that now 
joyningto t remembers it. After which spoken with gravity, the 

St-Martin's ' _ ,.'■,, , . ■? , V -i 

Church freshman kist the shoe, put on his gowne and band, and 

dWeiwn to0 ^ n * s P^ ace among the seniors. 

where but- Now for a diversion, and to make you laugh at the 

ter women 

and huck- folly and simplicity of those times, I shall entertaine you 
to sit. with part of a speech, which A. Wood spoke, while he 

stood on the forme, placed on the table, with his gowne 

and band off, and uncovered. 

" Most reverend seniors, 

" May it please your gravities, to admit into your presence 
a kitten of the muses, and a meer frog of Helicon, to 
croak the cataracts of his plumbeous cerebrosity before 
your sagacious ingenuities. Perhaps you may expect, that 
I should thunder out demicannon words, and level my 
sulphurious throat against my fellowes of the Tyrocinian 
crew ; but this being the universal judgment of wee fresh 
water academians, behold, as so many stygian furies, or 
ghosts risen out of their winding sheets, wee present our- 
selves before your tribunal, and therefore I will not subli- 
mate nor tonitruate words, nor swell into gigantick streins : 
such towring ebullitions do not exuberate in my aganippe, 
being at the lowest ebb. I have been no chairman in the 

s Frequentabis, &c. Hearne. * L. remember. Hearne. 



i647«] LIFE 0F wood. 37 

committee of Apollo's creatures, neither was I ever ad- 
mitted into the cabinet councils of the Pyerian dames, 
that my braines should evaporate into high hyperboles, or 
that I should bastinado the times with a tart satyr of a 
magic pen. Indeed I am but a fresh water soldier under 
the banners of Phoebus, and therefore cannot as yet set 
quart-pots or double juggs in battalia, or make a good 
shot in sack and claret, or give fire to the pistoletto tobacco 
u pipes, charged with it's Indian powder; and therefore 
having but poor skill in such service, I were about to 
turne Heliconian dragooner, but as I were mounting of 
my dapper nagg Pegasus, behold Shrove-Tuesday night 
arrested me, greeting me in the name of this honorable 
convocation, to appeare before their tribunal, and make 
answer for my self, which, most wise seniors, shall be in 
this wise. 

" I am none of those May-pole-freshmen, that are tall 
cedars before they come to be planted in [the] academian 
garden, who x fed with the papp of Aristotle at twenty or 
thirtie yeares of age, and suck at the duggs of their mother 
the university, tho they be high ColossufsJ's and youths 
rampant. 

" These are they, who come newly from y a bagg-pudding 
and a good brown loaf to deal with a penny-commons, as 
an elephant with a poor fly, tumbles it and tosses it, and 
at last gives him a z chop, that tugg as hard for a post- 
master's place, as a dog at mutton. 

" I am none of the university blood-hounds, that seek for 
preferment, and whose noses are [as] acute as their eares, 

u Pipe, in Diario. Hearne. z Chop. These are the Merto- 

x Sic etiam in Diario. F.feed. nian counter 'scuffiers, that tug as 

Hearne. hard for a postmaster's place as 

y A country bagg-pudding. Diar. commons in Diario. Hearne. 

Hearne. 



38 LIFE OF WOOD. \}&\1 - 

that lye perdue for places, and who, good saints, do groan 
till the visitation comes. These are they that esteem a 
tavern as bad as purgatory, and wine more superstitious 
than holy water : and therefore I hope this honorable con- 
vocation will not suffer one of that tribe to tast of the 
sack, [least they] should be troubled with a vertigo and 
their heads turne round. 

" I never came out of the country of Lapland. I am not 
of the number of beasts. I meane those greedie dogs and 
kitchin-haunters, who noint their chops every night with 
greese, and rob the cook of his fees" &c. 

Thus he went forward with smart reflections on the rest 
of the freshmen and some of the servants, which might 
have been here set downe, had not the speech been bor- 
rowed of him by several of the seniors, who imbezeFd it. 
After he had concluded his speech, he was taken downe by 
Edm. Dickenson, one of the bachelaur-commoners of the 
house, who with other bachelaurs and the senior under- 
graduats made him drink a good dish of cawdle, put on his 
gowne and band, placed him among the seniors, and gave 
him sack. 

This was the way and custome that had been used in 
the college, time out of mind, to initiate the freshmen; 
but between that time and the restoration of K. Ch. 2. it 
was disused, and now such a thing is absolutely a forgotten. 
1648. The visitors, appointed by parliament, having sate 

24 Car. I. several times in the lodgings of S r . Nath. Brent, warden 
of Merton coll. in the last yeare, but to little purpose, 
they proceeded this yeare with very great rigour, to the 

a The custom described above in this place, and in some a very 

was not, it is probable, peculiar to near resemblance of it has been 

Merton college. Perhaps it was kept up 'till within these few years, 

once general, as striking traces of W. & H. 
it may be found in many societies 



1648.] LIFE OF WOOD. 39 

ruin of the universitie. The members of every coll. were 
all summoned to appeare on a certaine day, and som- 
times 2 or 3 colleges or more appeared in one day, and 
if they did not give a positive answer, whether they would 
submit to them and their visitation, as appointed by par- 
liament, they were forthwith ejected. 

Friday (May 12) the members of Merton college ap-Mayi2. 
pear'd, and when A. W. was calFd in (for the members 
were called in one by one) he was ask'd this question by 
one of the visitors : " Will you submit to the authority of 
parliament in this visitation V To which he gave this an- 
swer, and wrot [it] downe b on a paper, lying on the table, 
as he was directed : " I do not understand the business, 
and therefore I am not able to give a direct answer." 

Afterwards his mother and brother Edward, who ad- 
vised him to submit in plaine termes, were exceeding 
angry with him, and told him, that he had ruined himself, 
and must therefore go a begging. At length, by the in- 
tercession of his mother made to S r . Nathan. Brent (who 
usually caFd her his little daughter, for he knew her, and 
us'd to set her on his knee, when shee was a girle and a 
sojournour in her husband's house, during the time of his 
first wife) he was connived at and kept in his place, other- 
wise he had infallibly gon to the pot. 

His eldest brother Tho. Wood, who had served in the Aug. 
quality of a lievtenant of horse for his majestie during the 
warr, did, after the warr was terminated, returne to his 
coll. of Ch. Ch. and there received the profits of his place ; 
but about the beginning of Aug. this yeare, he very ab- 
ruptly left the universitie, went into Ireland, and finding 
out his school-fellow colonel Hen. Ingoldesby, became an 
officer in his regiment, to fight against the rebells there. 

b In Diarium. Hearne. 



40 LIFE OF WOOD. [1648. 

The reason of his sudden departure was this : viz. that he 
being one of the prime plotters of the remaining cavaliers 
in Oxon. to seize on the garrison, visitors, and all the 
armes they could find, to the end that they might joyne 
themselves to others, that had plotted in the same manner 
in other parliament garrisons, to relieve the distressed 
cavaliers that were besieged in Colchester, the plot was 
discovered by one or more of them when they were in 
their cups 5 which made every one shift for themselves as 
well as they could. But some being taken, one of them, 
named Edward Adams, a barber, was upon the point of 
being hanged, having mounted the ladder in order there- 
unto on the signe post of the Catherine Wheel in Magda- 
len parish (in which inn they had layd the foundation of 
their plot). Mr. Francis Croft, whome A. W. found to be 
one of the chaplaynes of Merton coll. at his first coming 
thereunto, was deeply engaged in the said plot. He was 
a high-Hone cavalier and a boon companion, and was the 
man that gave to every person, that was concerned in the 
plot, the oath of secrecy : which being done, they were to 
write their names in his little paper-book, which he usually 
carried in his pocket; but if they could not write, they 
were to set their mark, and he to add their names to it. 
At the first discovery of the plot, Mr. Croft fled, and some 
of the parliament soldiers of the garrison supposing that 
he might be in his chamber, which joyned to that chamber, 
which was afterwards the common room belonging to 
Merton coll. they broke open his dore, searched, but found 
the bird flown. This being done early in the morning, his 
dore stood open most of the day following, and A. W. 
with some of the juniors going into it, saw it all adorn' d 
with escocheons, which he (Mr. Croft) had got by burying 
several persons of quality in Merton coll. church and 
elsewhere, during the abode of the king's and queen's 



J 649.] LIFE OF WOOD. 41 

courts in Oxon. but these, his books and bedding were 
not then touched. 

Edward Wood before mentioned, bach, of arts and scho- 
lar of Trin. coll. (who before had submitted to the visitors) 
was with others admitted probationer-fellow of Merton 
coll. They were severely examined, and in due course 
elected and admitted : which was done by the favour of 
the warden S r . N. Brent c the arch-visitor. Some admis- 
sions that followed were done by the sole authority of the 
committee and visitors. Soon after E. Wood being setled 
in the bay-tree-chamber, in the first quadrangle next to 
the gate of Merton coll. A. Wood was put into the cock- 
loft over him. So then, and after, his trudging to Trin. 
coll. to receive his instruction was savM. 

A. Wood's mother (Mary Wood) being much out of 1649. 
purse in reedyfying the stables and outhouses of the Flowr J Car - IL 
de Luce, and in repairing the inn it self, she gave off 
house-keeping, and taking her son Christopher and a maid 
with her, went to Cassington neare Woodstok, and so- 
journed in [a] fair stone house, then inhabited by one 

Tipping, lately sequestred from the vicaridg of Shab- 
bington in Bucks, neare to Thame, who had married an 
Oxford gentlewoman, the dau. of one Will. Dewey, who 
had been acquainted with M ns . Wood from her childhood. 
In the same house did then sojourn Mr. Joh. Lucas d , 
lately senior fellow of New college, and Mr. Rich. Sher- 
lock, lately chaplain of the said college, but now (1649) 
curat of Cassington. A. Wood did often retire thither to 



c Yet all that were then admit- of St. Giles, gent, who died in 

ted, submitted to the visitors. Some 1681, and bequeaths to the warden 

admissions of fellows that followed and fellows of New coll. " 10/. to 

Diar. Hearne. be layde out in plate for the mas- 

d [In the archives we have the ter ' s table."] 
will of John Lucas of the parish 



42 LIFE OF WOOD. l 1 ^^ 

see his mother, and somtimes lodge there for a night or 
two. Mr. Sherlock was civil to him, and would give him 
good instruction, and talk fatherly to him. Mr. Joh. 
Goad was then vicar of Yarnton, a mile distant from Cas- 
sington; (to whom Christop. Wood went dayly to school) 
and being a suffering cavalier, did go often to the said Mr. 
Tipping' s house, to visit his brother- sufferers. 

This person A. W. did often see there, and received 
instruction from him in many particulars, and found him 
an exceeding loving and tender man. A. W. did not then 
in the least think to write the lives of the said Rich. 
Sherlock and the said J. Goad, as afterwards he did, or to 
live to see them well promoted, and become eminent au- 
thors. But so it was, that length of time and sufferings 
made them forget such a little thing as A. W. was, and 
much adoe he had to make Dr. Sherlock know and under- 
stand him, when, 20 yeares after this time, he sent to him 
letters to Winwick in Lancashire (one of the fattest par- 
sonages in England) to let him have an account of himself, 
* Lib. 2. to be put in Hist, fy Antiq. Universit. Oxon *. At which 
also inATH. time finding him shie in answering his letters, he was 
der the year ^ orce ^ a * l en gkh> when he saw where the fault lay, to tell 
1689. him., that he was the son of that little woman (M ris . Wood) 
that somtimes sojourned with him in the same house at 
Cassington, wherein he also had sojourned; and then he 
was free with A. W. and answered his letters. 

In like manner also when A. W. was consulting, 30 
yeares after this time, the Athene et Fasti Oxon. he 
sent to Mr. Goad at Merchant Taylors school in London 
for some account of himself and writings, and found him 
very shie ; but giving him the like answer that he gave to 
f See Ath. Dr. Sherlock, he was very free afterwards in his commu- 
Oxon. un- nications, and received from him fulf satisfaction, ex- 

der the year ' 

1689. pressing himself, as Sherlock before did, verie joy full, and 



1 649.] LIFE OF WOOD. 43 

congratulated themselves, that they should live to see such 
a little junior, that they had knowne him to be, to become 
an author and a publisher of several folios, for the good 
and benefit of the commonwealth of learning. 

Mr. Anthony Hodges, rector of Wytham in Berks, (a See in the 
mile distant from Cassington,) would often come among 0N> un d er 
these royallists at Mr. Tipping' s house, and there make 1638. 
them merry. He was a very good scholar, and fit, in 
many respects, to oblige posterity by his pen; but de- 
lighting himself in mirth, and in that which was after- 
wards called buffooning and bantering, could never be 
brought to set pen to paper for that purpose. He was 
the mirth of the company, and they esteemed him their 
Terra films. 

John Blanks, a hansome yong man, and contem-Dec. 
porarie with A. W. in Mert. coll. being sent for home to 
keep his Christmas, A. W. went with him to the house 
of his father James Blanks, gent, impropriator of Bledlow 
in Bucks, neare to Thame in Oxfordshire, where he con- 
tinued more than a weeke. The church there stands upon 
a rising ground, and at the end of the chancel is a larg 
deep place, having on it's sides bushes and brambles grow- 
ing. At the bottome of this deep place issues out one or 
more springs, and gives the original to a little river. Be- 
tween the end of the chancel and the brink or edg of this 
deep place, is contained e as much ground as the space of 
six paces of a man. A. W. then heard several of the in- 
habitants repeat two old verses, that had gon from man to 
man these many yeares, which run thus : 

i^c t|)at lito & £ttl abide, 

mill $tz tfy cfjancd fal in ti)e &s&e- 

This deep place is with them caFd the Lyde, and the 

e As much ground that I can go over with about six of my paces. I 
then heard. Diar. Hearne. 



44 LIFE OF AVOOD. [ l6 49. 

ground between the brink of it and the end of the chancel 
doth sensibly weare away f , so that if some care in time be 
not taken, the proverbial verses may prove true. 

In the church here were some armes in the windowes, 
and an inscription or two on grave stones, of which A. W. 
toke notice according to his then capacity, but afterwards 
obtained a better method of taking them. These things 
are here set downe, because they were the first matters of 
that nature that A. W. took notice of. 

Jan. In the latter end of January he sent a generous requital 

to Mr. Ja. Blanks, for the great civilities he shewed unto 
him, during his being in his house last Christmas. 

Feb. 1 6. His brother Edward, who was his tutor, thinking it fit, 

that he should chang him for another, he was put under 
the tuition of Clinton Maund", an Irish man, borne of 
English parents, as being descended from the Maunds of 
Chesterton, near Bister in Oxfordshire. He was a bach, 
fellow, well growne in yeares, but a grand Presbyterian, 
alwaies praying in his chamber, and when master of arts 
preaching abroad. A. Wood's brother was pevish, and 
would be ever and anon angry, if he could not take or 
understand Logical notions as well as he. He would be 
somtimes so angry, that he would beat him and turne 

f Weare away and fall into the leeue all y* Mr. Powell doth tell 

Lyde, so that if care. Diar. you for he will not ly. Be di- 

Hearne. rected by him and he will not 

s [Maund died in Dec. 1660. open my truncke but giue you y e 

He made a will in the form of a key first. For my estate I make 

letter, which was proved before you my sole executrix and you 

the vice-chancellor by his mother may diuide among y or chilldren. I 

AnneBlenerhassett: — "Dearemo- am yet y or louing son Clinton 

ther I haue giuen Mr. Powell 5H. Maund. 

for a legacie and also to Mr. In the presence of John Powell. 

Bowell 5H. in case Mr. Powell see Margaret Hill her mark." — In 

y t he hath stated all accounts Archiv. Univ. Oxon.~] 
right between him and me. Be- 



1650.] LIFE OF WOOD. 45 

him out of his chamber ; of which complaining to his mo- 
ther, she was therefore willing, that Anthony should take 
another tutor. 

In the beginning of this yeare A. W. was made one of 1650. 
[the] Bible clerks, by the favour of S r . Nath. Brent, the 2 Car> IL 
warden, for these reasons : (1) Because the visitors cal'd in 
question the right of the fellows of the said coll. their 
bestowing of the postmasters places. (2) Because a clerk's 
place was better than that of a postmaster, tho since not, 
because that benefactions have been after this time be- 
stowed to make the postmaster's places better. There was 
then no duty in the chappel for the clerks, because the 
Common Prayer and Sacraments in the chap, were put 
downe, and but very little attendance there was for them 
in the hall. 

He answered Generals in the public schools, and James Ap. 5. 
Bricknell h , his chamberfellow and clerk of Merton coll. 
opposed him. 

He left the cockleloft over his brother's chamber in the Ap. 22. 
first quadrangle, and removed to the chamber in the little 
or old quadrangle, opposite to the exchequer chamber, 
which was appointed for the clerks. 

In the latter end of Aug. several juniors of Mert. coll. Aug. 
as Jo. Blanks, Brian Ambler, A. Wood, &c. got horses and 
rode to Wallingford in Berks, purposely to see the castle 
there, being then about to be demolished. They were in 
number about eight, and when they came to desire the 
guards to let them come into the castle, they refused to 
doe it, for no other reason, as the scholars supposed, but 

h [Son of Sam. Br. a surgeon took the degrees in arts and be- 
in the pari, army among the forces came a minister in Kent. Wood's 
raised by Will, earle of Bedford. MS. in Bp. Tanner's collec- 
He afterwards succeeded Will. tions.~] 
Hill in the clerkship of the coll. 



46 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 50. 

that their number was too great, * may have some designe 
upon them. Col. Arth. Evelin was then, as it seems, 
governour, but was not at home, otherwise, as 'tis believed, 
they might have had entrance. So going back to the 
towne of k Wallingford, they dined there, and returned to 
Oxon. 

Dec. 14. One Anne Green, a servant maid, was hang'd in the 
castle of Oxon. for murdering her bastard-child, begotten 
by Jeffry Reade, grand-son to sir Tho. Read of Duns- 
Tew in Oxfordshire. After she had suffered the law, she 
was cut downe, and carried away in order to be anatomized 
by some yong physitians; but they finding life in her, 
would not venter upon her, only so farr, as to recover 
her to life. Which being looked upon as a great wonder, 
there was a relation of her recovery printed, and at 
the end several copies of verses, made by the yong poets 
of the universitie, were added. See more in the next 
yeare. 

Jan. 16. Twelve postmasters of Merton coll. were expel' d by the 

visitors, viz. Joh. Blanks, John Wright, Brian Ambler, 
Rich. Philipps, &c. some of which, who were godly youths, 
as Georg Pricket, Steph. Richmond, Will. Stanie, &c. 
they afterwards restored to, and confirmed them in, their 
places. So that had A. W. continued postmaster a little 
longer, he had, without doubt, received his quietus. As 
for Joh. Blanks, he afterwards retired to his father's 
house, and became an attorney 1 ; Joh. Wright, after 
[the] king's restoration, became master of the king's 
school at Worcester ; Brian Ambler a minister in Shrop- 

1 F. might. Hearne. journey a which I kept till I grew 

k Wallingford, wee dined there too bigg for them. One Ann Green. 

% and returned to Oxon. I had then In Diario. Hearne. 

by all accounterments [sic] for a l [At Aylesbury.] 



1650.] LIFE OF WOOD. 47 

shire n ; and Rich. Philipps, upon a second answer given in 
to the visitors, was kept in, and after he had taken a de- 
gree in arts, he became a mortified and pious minister in 
Shropshire , &c. 

Edward Wood, fellow of Merton coll. was, for divers Jan. 22. 
pretended miscarriages and misdeameanors, suspended by 
the visitors from his commons and all profits from his 
place, as also from being tutor in that coll. untill farther 
order. The miscarriages were, first, for entertaining stran- 
gers at his chamber with more wine, than 'twas thought 
convenient. (2) for drinking the king's health at Medley 
neare Oxon. two yeares before, with some of his contem- 
poraries of Trinity coll. &c. Which suspension was occa- 
sioned by the uncharitable information made to the visitors 
by Tho. Franke, a junior fellow of Mert. coll. who now did 
lay in wait as 'twere to bring the said coll. into distraction 
and trouble. 

This Thorn. Franke, after all his obsequious flatteries, 
fals tales, cringing to the presbyterians and independents, 
and his being actually in armes P in the troop, raised by 
the university of Oxon. against K. Ch. 2. at Worcester 

n [At Ledbury, where he died he did, and continued in college 

in consequence of a fall from his about two yeares after, where he 

horse. He had a son John who was observed to be given much to 

was in 1689 admitted as a clerk trickinge and drawing pictures 

of All Souls college, a?t. 17.] with his pen, and something to 

[Rich. Philipps, the son of An- musick. An ingenious man, went 

drew Ph. of Tone Atton in Shrop- afterwards into the country where 

shire, cler. was matr. as a servitor he had some small cure. Created 

of Balliol Mar. 6, 1646-7. a?t. 18. M. A. at the king's restoration, 

Wood in a MS. note says that he and about three or four years after 

was taken away from Balliol by died in his owne country." Wood's 

Mr. Howson of Merton and made MS. in Bp. Tanner's collection.'] 
his postmaster. He took his B.A. P In the university troop a- 

degree April 22, 165 1. "At first he gainst K. Ch. 2. at Worcester. 

did not submit to the visitors, but Diarium. Hearne. 
afterwards, upon second thoughts, 



48 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[1650. 



an. 1651, had the impudence, after the restoration of the 
said king, to turn about, and for his money to get the 
rectory of Cranfield in Derbyshire, whilst others, that had 
been great sufferers for his majestie's cause, and had no 
money, were forced to shark and live as opportunity served. 
He was a most vile person, and not fit to live in a society: 
yet, if I am not mistaken, he did, when he used to retire 
to the college, after he had been setled at Cranfield, ex- 
press some repentance of what he had done to the injury 
of several of the society, before Mr. Pet. Nicolls and Joh. 
Powell senior, fellowes of the said coll. 

This yeare Jacob a Jew opened a coffey house at the 
Angel in the parish of S. Peter in the east, Oxon. and 
there it was by some, who delighted in noveltie, drank <L 



<i [The fashion of drinking cof- 
fee in public, prevailed in Oxford 
immediately upon its introduction 
into England, and continued to a 
late period. I am told by a ve- 
nerable friend, now (Feb. 1848.) 
in his 93rd year, that he well re- 
members the time when every 
academic of any fashion resorted 
to the coffee house during the 
afternoon : Tom's, nearly opposite 
the present market, being fre- 
quented by the most gay and ex- 
pensive ; Horseman's, also in the 
High Street, nearly opposite the 
house of the principal of Brasenose, 
received the members of Merton, 
All Souls, Corpus, and Oriel; 
Harper's, the corner house of the 
lane leading to Edmund hall, 
those of Queens and Magdalen ; 
Baggs's, the stone house (built, by 
the way, out of the surplus mate- 
rials from Blenheim by sir John 



Vanburgh, who built also a simi- 
lar house in New Inn Hall Lane, 
now occupied by Mr. Walsh, and 
another in St. Aldates, near Folly 
bridge, pulled down some twenty 
years since) at the corner of Holy- 
well, facing the King's Arms, 
used by New college, Hertford, 
and Wadham; and Malbon's, a 
diminutive tenement some feet be- 
low the present street at the north 
east corner of the Turl, was filled 
from Trinity, and by the members 
of the neighbouring colleges. 

It does not appear that the press 
took much or early notice of the 
new fashion. William Rumsey 
in 1657 printed his Org anon Sa- 
lutis, in which his "Experiments 
of cophie and tobacco" are much 
lauded by sir Henry Blount the tra- 
veller, and Howell the letter writer : 
and there are two other treatises : 

1. The Natural History of Cof- 



1 651.] LIFE OF WOOD. 49 

When he left Oxon. he sold it in Old Southampton build- 
ings in Holborne neare London, and was living there 
1671. See in 1654. 

A line of thirtie pound was set by the warden and fel- 1 65 1 . 
lowes of Merton coll. for M ris . Wood (mother to A. W.) 3 Car - IL 

to pay, by way of renewing, for the housing and gardens See in an. 

1635. 



fee, Thee, Chocolate, and Tobacco 
in four several sections ; with a tract 
of elder and juniper-berries shew- 
ing how useful they may be in our 
Coffee-houses ; and also the way 
of making Mum. Lond. for Chris- 
topher Wilkinson. 1682. 4 . 

2. The manner of making of 
Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, as it is 
used in most parts of Europe, 
Asia, Africa and America; with 
their vertues. Lond. for William 
Crook. 1685. 8«. 

Whilst upon this subject it may 
be worth recording, that from a 
printed catalogue of one of the East 
India company's sales in 17 19, the 
average price of tea at that time ap- 
pears to have been seventeen shil- 
lings and sixpence per pound; 
and that the company were also 
importers of china ware, cups and 
saucers, which realized, in large 
lots, about fourteen shillings the 
dozen. 

The wits, however, very soon 
took advantage of the novelty, as 
the following list of facetiae, which 
may perhaps be much enlarged, 
will shew : 

1. The Maiden's Complaint a- 
gainst Coffee : or the Coffee-house 
discovered, besieged, stormed, 
taken, untyled, and laid open to 

WOOD, VOL. I. 



publick view, in a merry confer- 
ence, &c. Lond. for J. Jones. 
1663. 4 . 

2. The Coffee-man's Granado 
discharged upon the Maiden's 
Complaint against Coffee, in a dia- 
logue—wherein is discovered seve- 
ral strange, wonderful and mira- 
culous cures performed by Coffee. 
Lond. for J. Johnson. 1663. 4 . 

3. The Character of a Coffee- 
house, wherein is contained a De- 
scription of the Persons usually 
frequenting it, with their Dis- 
course and Humors, as also the 
admirable Vertues of Coffee. 
Printed in the year 1665. 4 . 
(In verse.) 

4. The Character of a Coffee- 
house, with the Symptomes of a 
Town-wit. Lond. for Jonathan 
Edwin. 1673. fol. 

5. Coffee-houses vindicated in 
answer to the late published Cha- 
racter of a Coffee-house. Lond. 
by J. Lock. 1674. fol. 

6. The Women's Petition a- 
gainst Coffee. Lond. 1674. 4 . 

7. The Man's Answer to the 
Woman's Petition. Lond. 1674. 4 . 

8. The School of Politicks : or 
the Humours of a Coffee-house. 
Lond. for Rich. Baldwin. 1690. 
4°.] 

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50 LIFE OF WOOD. [1651. 

against Merton coll. and for the Flour de Luce and it's 
appurtenances in S. Martin's parish. 

About the same time the second impression of the pam- 
phlet, concerning Ann Green, with the verses at the end, 
was published with it's old title, viz. Neives from the Dead: 
or a true and exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliver- 
ance of Ann Green, &c. r At the end of this impression are 
several copies of verses added, which were not in the first 
impression, among which is one printed under the name 
of s A. Wood, beginning thus : 

' Pie stretch my muse, but that a verse 
Fie hang upon thy living hearse. 
Chime in yee wits, and rhyme a knell ; 
For Death her self is lately fell &e.' 

Thorn. Wood, eldest brother to A. W. died of the flux 
at Drogheda, commonly called Tredagh, in the month of 
Decemb. He was borne at Tetsworth neare to Thame 
in Oxfordshire, where his father then had * a farme, edu- 
cated mostly in the free school at Thame under his kins- 

r [This tract is erroneously as- s Memorandum, that whereas 

cribed by Dr. Derham in his Phi- one copy of English verses, in the 

sico Theology to Ralph Bathurst. verses made and printed upon 

The author was Richard Watkins Anne Green, is ascribed to Ant. 

of Christ Church, of whom see "Wood, a bit of paper is pasted 

the Fasti under the year 1647. over the name in the copy I have 

There was a very rare tract on the seen in the Ashmolean museum, 

same subject, entit. A Declaration and E. W. is written upon it, as 

from Oxford of Anne Green, a if Anthony's elder brother Mr. 

young woman that was lately and Edw. Wood were the true author, 

unjustly hanged in the Castle-yard, which I believe to be right, it being 

but since recovered, her neck set certain, that Anthony was no poet. 

strait, and her eyes fixed orderly Coll. nostr. MSS. Vol. lxviii. p. 88. 

and firmly in her head again. Hearne. [The copy was formerly 

Lond. Printed by J. Clowes. 1651. John Aubrey's, now in Ashmole's 

4 . with a woodcut representing Study, N°. 1672.] 

the execution, and the sufferer re- t A farme, on the 24 May 1624, 

covering in bed.] educated. Diar. Hearne. 



165 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 51 

man Mr. W. Burt, was made student of Ch. Church in 
1638, as I have before told you, and afterwards was the 
first, or one of the first yong scholars in Oxon. that threw 
off his gowne, and ran to Edghill battle. See more under See in the 

Fasti Ox- 

the yeare 1642. At his returne thence he was actually 0N< un( j er 
created bach, of arts among soldiers that had done service th £ yeare 
at the said battle: and then his father seeing that he 
could not persuade him from being a u scholar, he bought 
a horse, armes, cloaths, &c. set him up for a troper, and 
got him a place to ride in the troop of captaine Tho. Gar- 
diner of Cudesdon neare Oxon. Afterwards he became a 
stout and desperat soldier, was in several battles, and 
besieged in divers garrisons, particularly, if I am not 
mistaken, at Basing in Hampshire, and was made a liev- See more 
tenant of horse. When the warr was terminated, and the*^®^ 61 " 
king's cause utterlie vanquished, he returned to his college, l6 47- 
was actually created Mr. of arts, an. 1647, but in the next 
yeare being deeply engaged in the cavaliering plot, as I 
have told you under that yeare, (1648) he, to avoid being 
taken and hanged for it, fled into Ireland, where finding 
out his quondam school-fellow at Thame, called col. Hen. 
Ingoldesbie, he became a lievtenant in his regiment, after- 
wards a captaine, and, as I have heard, had a commission 
a little before his death, to be a major. About a yeare 
before that time, viz. in 1650, he returned for a time to 
Oxon. to take up his arrears at Ch. Church, and to settle 
his other affaires ; at which time being often with his mo- 
ther and brethren, he would tell them of the most terrible 
assaulting and storming of Tredagh, wherein he himself 
had been engaged. He told them, that 3000 at least, 

u Sic MS. At Soldier in Diario; proinde forsitan legi maluit, per- 
ita tamen ut lineam (in Diario) swade Mm to be a Scholar. 
per oldier duxerit ipse auctor, & Hearne. 
cholar superne scripserit: qui 

E 2 



52 LIFE OF WOOD. [ 1 65 1 . 

besides some women and children, were, after the assali- 
ants had taken part, and afterwards all the towne, put to 
the sword on the 11 and 12 of Sept. 1649; at which time 
S r . Arth. Aston the governour had his braines beat out, 
and his body x hacked to pieces. He told them, that when 
they were to make J the way up to the lofts and galleries 
in the church, and up to the z tower where the enemy had 
fled, each of the assaliants would take up a child and use 
as a buckler of defence, when they ascended the steps, to 
keep themselves from being shot or brain' d. 

After they had ki?d all in the a church, they went into 
the vaults underneath, where all the flower and choicest of 
the women and ladies had hid themselves. One of these, 
a most hansome virgin, arrai'd in costly and gorgeous 
apparel, kneeFd downe to Tho. Wood with teares and 
prayers to save her life : and being strucken with b a 
profound pitie, took her under his arme, went with her 
out of the church, with intentions to put her over the 
works to shift for her self; but a soldier perceiving his 
intentions, he ran his sword up her belly or fundament. 
Whereupon Mr. Wood seeing her gasping, took away 
her money, Jewells, &c. and flung her downe over the 
works, &c. 

In the latter end of 1680, when the parliament sate at 
Oxon. A. Wood was walking with S r . Hen. S t . Georg, 
Clarentius king of armes, in the school-quadrangle. S r . 
Hen. then meeting with col. Hen. Ingoldesbie before men- 
tioned, and telling him who A. W. was, A. W. thereupon 
did discourse with him concerning his brother Thomas : 
and, among several c things that the colonel told him, was, 

x Hack'd and chop'd to pieces. a Churches. In Diario. Hearne. 

Diar. Hearne. b £ d ee p remorse. Diar. 

y Their way. Diar. Hearne. Hearne. 

z In churches, and up to the c Things, he told me, that he 

towers. In Diario Hearne. was a good. Diar. Hearne. 



3652.] LIFE OF WOOD. 53 

that Thomas was a good soldier, stout and ventrous, and 
having an art of merriment, called buffooning, his com- 
pany was desired and loved by the officers of his regiment. 
He told him then, he was buried in a church at Tredagh 
answerable to his quality, but could not tell him when he 
died. This Tho. Wood was a tall, proper and robust man, 
like his father, but black and swarthy, unlike in that to 
any of his brethren, or father. 

This yeare A. W. began to exercise his natural and 
insatiable genie he had to musick. He exercised his hand 
on the violin, and having a good eare to take any tune at 
first hearing, he could quickly draw it out from the violin, 
but not with the same tuning of strings that others used. 
He wanted understanding, friends and money, to pick him 
out a good master, otherwise he might have equaled in 
that instrument, and in singing, any person then in the 
universitie. He had some companions that were musical, 
but they wanted instruction as well as he. 

Friday Jul. 2. A. Wood was examined for the degree of 1652. 
bac. of arts in the natural philosophy school, by Will. 4 ar ' ' 
Browne, M. A. of Magd. coll. a native of Oxon. He had 
before answered twice under a bachelaur among the crowd 
in the divinity school, and once, if not both the times, 
under Matth. Bee, a determining bachelaur of Universitie 
coll. in the Lent-time 165^ : which M. Bee was afterwards 
minister of Windlebury neare Bister in Oxfordshire : and 
on the 6 of the same month he was adm. bach, of arts. 

Munday, and Shabbington Wake as it seems, he rode in 
the company of a mimick and buffoon, called Tho. Wil- 
liams ; and the horse of A. W. being bad, or else that he 
was no good rider, he had a fall, and put out his . . . arme. 
When he came to Shabbington, he put off his doublet, 
and found his arme sweFd and exceeding tender. Th. 
Williams, who had been bred an apothecary, would needs 



54 LIFE OF WOOD. [ J 652. 

perswade him, that his arme was not out of joynt, only 
bruised, and so applyed a cloath and oyle to it; yet, not- 
withstanding this, he could not use it, which caused all his 
mirth to be turned into melancholy. In this condition he 
continued about a week there, rode to Thame, eat and 
drank, but with little comfort or rest, and at length came 
home in a most afflicted condition. 

After he had been at home some dayes, he was advised 
to go to . . . Adams a lock-smith, living in Catstreet, who 
was an expert bone-setter, to the end that he might look 
upon it, and see what was to be done. He spoke mildly 
to A. W. when he looked on his arme, gave him sweet 
words, and told him all was well. At length casting his 
head aside, Adams fastned one of his hands above and 
another below the elbow, pluck' d the arme straight and 
set it. But the paine being great and unexpected (be- 
cause that the arteries had been shrunk) he fell into a 
great sown, and could see nothing but green before his 
eyes. Adams then laid him upon the bed, gave him cor- 
dials, and put him to sleep. Afterwards he found himself 
at ease, and better every day, but never before that time 
or since, knew what sowning d was or is. 

Thomas Williams before mentioned had an estate in 
land, houses and money left to him by his father, but 
never would follow his trade, onlie live a loos live, and took 
all advantages to do it gratis. Afterwards when A. W. 
came to understand the world better, he found him a de- 
baucher of youth, e and not fit to live in an universitie 
among gentlemen. His usual way was, that after he had 
let out money to any man, he would hang upon him, eat 
and drink in his house : and if he could meet with any of 
his acquaintance, whose nature was easie, he would take 

d After was or is is added in the bad as death. Hearne. 
Diary, which without doubt is as e And scarse jit. Diar. Hearne. 



1652.] LIFE OF WOOD. 55 

him with him to eat, drink and lodg on the debter. And 
to this farmer f of Shabington did he go to hang upon him, 
and » take A. W. with him, as he afterwards understood. 

In the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Septemb. Aug. 
A. W. went to angle with Will. Staine of Mert. coll. to Se P L 
Wheately bridge, and nutted in Shotover by the way. The 
day was hot, and A. W. sitting and standing some houres 
in fishing, he got an ague, came home faint and dry, with 
the loss of an appetite of eating. It proved a quartan 
ague, and an houre or two before it came on him, he would 
be exceeding prone to vomit, and what in the well-days 
his stomach had contracted he would on the sick-day 
vomit it out with great wretching and payne. This brought 
his body low, but made him grow much taller : and much 
physick and slops being taken in the winter following, yet 
he could find no remedy. At length he was advised to 
retire into the country to take better ayre than in Oxon. 
follow the plow, and use what exercise he could there to 
shake the ague off. 

Tuesday (Feb. 15.) A. W. went to Cassington before Feb. 15. 
mentioned, and because Mr. Tipping and his wife had 
quitted their quarters in that towne, he took up his quar- 
ters at the next dore, in the house of an honest and suffi- 
cient farmer, called Francis Bolter; whose house tho 
thatched, yet he had a very fair chamber therein with a 
chimney, and a place to lay his books in. 

A. W. had a very sad dreame in his sleep. He was in Feb. 21. 
a melancholy place, had no companion, &c. 

His body was much out of order, and on those nights, 
wherein he had his hot fit (for his cold fit would come 
with extreame vomiting about 5 or 6 at night) he would 



1 At Shabington, to whome he Hearne. 
had lent money, did he goe. Diar. s Toke. Diar. Hearne. 



56 LIFE OF WOOD. [1652. 

have disconsolate dreames, which would make him melan- 
choly on the dayes following. 

While he continued in the country, he followed the 
plow on his well-dayes, and somtimes plowed. He learnt 
there to ring on the six bells, then newly put up : and 
having had from his most tender yeares an extraordinary 
ravishing delight in musick, he practiced privately there, 
without the help of an instructer, to play on the violin. 
It was then that he set and tuned in strings in fourths, 
and not in fifths according to the manner : and having a 
good eare, h and ready to sing any tune upon hearing it 
once or twice, he would play them all in short time with 
the said way of tuning, which was never knowne before. 
Mar. 4. His landlord did once perswade him to drink his ague 

away : and thereupon going to the alehouse an houre or 
two before it was come, they set hand to fist, and drunk 
very desperatly. But then vomiting all up before it made 
any continuance in his stomach, or before it got up in his 
head, he was forced, after he had spent three shillings, to 
lead his landlord home, notwithstanding he had put in 
Mr. Wood's cup tobacco. This country man (a merry 
fellow, and one that pretended to wit) thought, that the 
ague was a little spirit or devil, that had got within him ; 
and therefore when hot weather came, he would have him 
go into the water and drowne it, or go to Oxon. in a boat, 
and so shift it from him into the water, and row hastily 
from it, and leave it to shark for it self. A. W. told him 
this was a Pythagorsean opinion of his : at which hard word 
being startled, he thought it was none of his, but the little 
devil within him that sent it out of his mouth, &c. In 
this condition he continued till the weather was altered 
and grew hotter, and then his ague and fits grew less, yet 

h And being ready. Diar. Hearne. 



1653] LIFE OF WOOD. 57 

when cold weather came againe it would be apt to return, 
and would have fastned on him againe, had he not pre- 
vented it by physick. 

Saturday (Mar. 12) his brother Edw. and Robert Wood, Mar. 12. 
with Mr. Tho. Cole steward of Merton coll. were with him 
to comfort him in his disconsolate condition. They dined 
with him, and then departed. 

After he had spent the summer at Cassington in a 1653. 
lonish and retired condition, he returned to Oxon. and„ ' 

' £ Oliv. 

being advised by some persons, he entertained a master of Protect, 
musick to teach him the usual way of playing on the violin, 
that is, by having every string tuned 5 notes lower than 
the other going before. The master was Charles Griffith, 
one of the musitians belonging to the city of Oxon. whom 
he thought then to be a most excellent artist, but when 
A. W. improved himself in that instrument, he found him 
not so. He gave him 2s. 6d. entrance, and 10s. quarterly. Sept. 8. 
This person after he had extreamly wondred how he could 
play so many tunes as he did by fourths, without a director 
or guide, he then tuned his violin by fifths, and gave him 
instructions how to proceed, leaving then a lesson with him 
to practice against his next coming. 

The last yeare, after he was entred into the publick 
library (which he took to be the happiness of his life, and 
into which he never entred without great veneration) he 
could do but little in it, because he was entred but a little 
while before his ague took him. But this yeare being a 
constant student therein, he became acquainted with the 
places in the arts library, (for no farther could bachelaurs 
of arts then goe) where the books of English historie and 
antiquities stand. He lighted upon The Description of 
Ley cester shire, written by Will. Burton: and being ex- 
ceedingly delighted with the performance, he did this or 
in the yeare following, take notes thence, and make collec- 



58 LIFE OF WOOD. [ I0 53- 

tions from it, which he had lying by him in his last dayes. 
He took great delight in reading The Display of Heraldry, 
written by John Guillim, and in other books of that 
faculty, written by Joh. Bossewell, John Feme, &c. and 
endeavoured to draw out and trick armes with his pen. 
And afterwards when he came to full yeares, he perceived 
it was his natural genie, and could not avoid J them. He- 
raldry, musick and painting did so much crowd upon him, 
that he could not avoid them ; and could never give a rea- 
son why he should delight in those studies, more than in 
others, so prevalent was nature, mix'd with a generosity 
of mind, and a hatred to all that was servile, sneaking 
or advantagious for lucre sake. His brother Edw. Wood 
was much against these studies, and advised him to enter 
on those that were beneficial, as his mother did. He had 
then a gentile companion of the same coll. (J. W.) who de- 
lighted in vertuous studies as he did, and would walk several 
times with him in shady recesses and retired walkes, to 
each others content; but the same J. W. being a gent, of 
a good descent, and an heir to an estate of 7001. per an. at 
least, he went afterwards to London, mixed himself with 
idle company that flattered and admired him, and at length 
debach'd him ; which did not a little trouble A. W. 
Nov. His kinsman Charnel Pettie esq ; an old puritan, and 

an honest and quiet man, became high-sherriff of Oxford- 
shire. His estate was at Tetsworth and elsewhere, but 
lived now at Stoke-Lyne neare to Bister, the inheritance 
of his daughter's son, named Ralph Holt, who being a 
minor, the said Charnel Pettie was his guardian. 

1654. .... Hussey & Peck, two gentlemen that 

6 Car. II. were lately officers in the king's army, were hang'd in the 
J 0hv * castle-yard in Oxon. to the great reluct ancy of the gene- 
July 25. 

1 It. Diar. Hearne. 



1 654.] LIFE OF WOOD. 59 

rous royallists then living in Oxon. They were ont of 
commission and employ, had no money to maintain them, 
which made them rob on the high-way. After a tedious 
imprisonment in the jayle at Oxon. they were condemned 
to dye by that inveterate enemy to the royal partie j John 
Glynn, sergeant at law, who this yeare went Oxford circuit. 

Hussey was the eldest, had received some marks of 
k honour in his face, and no doubt in his body also, and 
died penitent. Peck, who was yonger, was proper, robust, 
and seemed a stout man. He died resolute, and not so 
penitent as Hussey. As soon as they were cut downe, 
they were carried away by some royallists, and Hussey was 
on the same day at night buried by them in the church of 
S. Peter in the Baylie. This was the first or 2 d execution 
that A. W. ever saw, and therefore it struck a great terror 
into him, to the disturbance of his studies and thoughts. 
They were exceedingly pittied by all men. 

A. W. was examined for the degree of * master of arts Aug. 10. 
by m W. Bull of Trinity, afterwards fellow of Allsouls, 
coll. The other examiners were Georg Weldon of Magd. 
coll. and Joh. Whitehead of Exeter coll. who examined 
the rest of the class. He had certificats by him for the 
performance of other "lectures, but they are imbezeld 
and lost. 

J Did not the learned Glynne m Will. Bull, master of arts and 

and Maynard bach, of physick, was also fellow 

To make good subjects traytors of Allsouls, died 15 July i66t, 

strain hard ? and was buried in the outward 

Hudibras. W. & H. chapel of that college. He was 

k Over this word in the Diary of Peglinch, near Wells in com. 

is written valour, by Mr. Wood's Somers. and bore to his arms, as 

own hand, but in a paler ink. I remember, Or: 3 Bulls heads 

Hearne. Cabosed Or : obiit anno setatis 28. 

1 Master in the Natural Phi- Wood's MSS. in Mus. Ashm. 

losophy School by Will. Bull. 8466. W. & H. 

Hearne. n Exercise, in Diario. Hearne. 



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f W. Bull. 
E.G. 
J. T. 
G. M. 



"Cirques Jobson, a Jew and Jacobite, borne neare 
Mount-Libanus, sold coffey in Oxon. in an house between 
Edmund hall and Queen's coll. corner. See in the yeare 
1650 and 1655. 

By his sedulous and close studying in the publick library, 
and by conversing with books not used by the vulgar stu- 
dents, especially MSS. he was taken notice of by Mr. 
Tho. Barlow, the head-keeper of the said library, who 
began thereupon to express some kindness towards him, 
with the offering his assisting hand. 

A. W. having by this time obtained proficiency in mu- 
sick, he and his companions f were not without silly 
frolicks, not now to be p maintained q. 



° This §. is thus read in the 
Diary, viz. Coffey, which had been 
drank by some persons in Oxon. 
1 650, was this yeare publickly sold 
at or neare the Angel within the 
east gate of Oxon. as also Choco- 
late by an outlander or a Jew. 
Hearne. 

p F. mention'd. Hearne. 

1 What those silly frolicks were, 
the reader will easily understand 
from what occurs in the Diary, 
where instead of this paragraph 
we have what follows : 

Having by this time got some 
musical acquaintance, afrolick by 
all meanes must be taken by us j 
and what should it be, but to dis- 
guise our selves in poor habits, and 
like contry jidlers scrape for our 
livings? Farring don fair this yeare 
was the place designed to go to : 
and all of us (five in number) lodg- 
ing in a house in the middle rew 
in Magd. parish, belonging to one 
Gregory a chandler, wee sate out 



very early the next morning, and 
calling first on Mr. Th. Latton's 
house at Kingston Bakepuze, wee 
bid him good morrow by 2 or 3 
tunes. — He came in the hall among 
us, listned to our music, gave us 
money, and ordered drink to be 
carried to us. After wee had done 
with him, wee retired to the in 
standing on the road going to Far- 
ringdon, dined there, and after din- 
ner wee were entertain' d by some 
of the neighbours, who danced (as 
I remember) in the green, gave us 
some money and victuals, and I 
think wee returned very late that 
evening to Oxon. The names of 
those in this exploit were, myself 
and Will. Bull before mentiond, 
who played on the violins, Edm. 
Gregorie B. A. and gent. com. of 
Mert. coll. who playd on the bass 
viol, J oh. Nap of Trinity on the 
citerne, and George Mason of the 
said coll: on another wyer instru- 
ment, but could do nothing. — Soon 



1655.] LIFE OF WOOD. 61 

Edw. Wood, eldest brother to A. W. and fellow of Mer- 1655. 
ton coll. was installed junior proctor for the Univ. of 7 Car. II. 
Oxon. Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his p rot ^t 
collector in Austins ; which office he kept till he was ad- Ap. 25. 
mitted Mr. of arts. 

A. W. made his first declamation in the Natural Philo- May 3. 
sophy school for the degree of Mr. of Arts. The subject 
was, Bonum quoddam quilibet efficiat, Optimi autem solum 
perseverant. 

A. W. made his 2 d declamation in the said schoole. 16. 
And his subject was, Utrum prastantius esset Ciceroni[s] 
libros comburere, quam mortem r subiri ? 

Edw. Wood died, to the great reluctancy of his friends 22. 
and relations, in his mother's house against Merton coll. 
being the fourth week of his proctorship. He was ad- 
ministred to in his last days by Ralp[h] Button, his 
quondam tutor, now canon of Ch. Church. He died of 
vomiting blood and consumption with it, and made a most 
religious end. 

His body was carried into the common hall of Merton 24. 
coll. where the society, and such masters of arts that were 
pleased to come to pay their last respects to him, had 
gloves, wine and bisket in abundance, as also had the 
doctors, heades of houses, and his brother proctor Samuel 
Bruen s , to which last E. Wood had bequeathed money to 

afterweetookanothervoyage north- Most of my companions would 

ward, called at Hampton Poyle, afterwards glory in this, but I was 

played at Mr. West's house, had ashamd, and could never endure to 

some money, but more drink. — Af- hear of it. Hearne. 

terwards wee went (I think) to Kid- r ^ subire. Hearne. 

lington, got something there, re- s [Samuel Brewen, probably the 

turnd in the evening, and certain same, " preacher of God's word 

soldiers overtaking us, they by force in the rectory of Cudsden," brings 

made us play in the openfeild and an action in 1657 against John 

then left us without giving a penny. Pekins gent, of Denton, for slan- 



62 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 55- 

buy him a mourning gowne. Afterwards his body being 
carried to Merton coll. church, there was a sermon preached 
for that occasion by his aforesaid quondam tutor ; which 
being not extant, I cannot refer you to it. His hearse was 
adorned with escocheons and verses; among which last 
was a copie made by his acquaintance D r . Barton Holyday, 
archdeacon of Oxford, an antient poet, running thus : 

Upon the death of his vertuous and prudent friend Mr. 
Edw. Wood, in the beginning of his proctorship of the 
universitie of Oxon. 

Chosen he was a censor of the times : 
He chose to dye, rather than view the crimes. 
The Cynique's lanterne he far wiser thought, 
That for an honest man at high-noon sought, 
Then bring a midnight sinner to the light, 
Whose darker actions do outshade the night. 
Friend, l thou was wise, with honour thus to dye. 
Fame is thy epitaph, thy tombe the skye. 

Oct. 12. A handsome maid living in Catstreet, being deeply in 

love with Joseph Godwin, a junior fellow of New co]l. 
poisoned herself with rats-bane. This is mentioned, be- 
cause it made a great wonder, that a maid should be in 
love with such a person as he, who had a curFd shag-pate, 
was squint-ey'd and purblind, and much deformed with the 
smal pox. He was the son of a father of both his names, 
who was a bookseller at the upper end of Catstreet u , and 
before he had been translated to Winchester school, had 
been in the same forme with A. Wood at New coll. school. 

derous words, " namely that being in 1669, was proved by his son 
drunk, he had fallen into the fire here mentioned, who was his fa- 
and burnt himself." The damages ther's executor, and, with the ex- 
were laid at 200I. but what the ception of some trifling legacies, 
result I have not found.] sole heir. Godwin, the son, was 
* thou wast wise. Hearne. admitted fellow of New coll. 1652, 
u [Joseph Godwin the book- and vacated in 1658, being then 
seller died in 1673 : his will, dated M.A.] 



1 655.] LIFE OF WOOD. 63 

On the vigil of S. Luke, part or half of the roof of the 
south part of Merton coll. outer-chappel, joyning to the 
tower, fell within the church about 9 of the clock at night, 
and broke all the stones laying on the floor, of which some 
were monumental stones. Afterwards when the ruins were 
taken away A. W. retrieved the brass plates that were 
fixed on them, and transcribed and sav ; d the inscriptions 
on them, which he afterwards printed in his Hist, et Antiq. 
Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. (pag. 91.) 

He was admitted master of arts, being then his birth- Dec. 17. 
day, and at the same time he was admitted ad regendum. 
It was his intention to be admitted 2 or 3 dayes after he 
had last declaimed; but being troubled with the aking 
of a tooth, he drew it, which caused a swelling in his 
cheek, and that a tumour, and that a lancing, which made 
him unfit to appeare in public. 

In the beginning of March he published five sermons of Mar. 

his brother Edw. Wood lately deceased, which he had ^ ee Ath * 

J 7 Oxon. un- 

preached before the universitie. He dedicated them to der the year 
x D r . Jonathan Goddard, warden of Merton coll. and sent 
to him a very fair copie of them bound in blew Turkey- 
leather, with their leaves gilt, yl sent the book by the 
carrier to London, and Jam. Bricknell, M. A. his quondam 
chamberfellow, presented it in his (A. Wood's) name to 
the said warden living in Gresham coll. 

In this yeare Arth. Tillyard, z apothecary and great roy- 
allist, sold coffey publickly in his house against All-soules 
coll. a He was encouraged so to do by som royallists, now 

x See Ward's Lives of the Gre- 21 Dec. 1677, adding thereto a co- 

sham Professors, p. 270. W. & H. dicil dated 6 Oct. 1683. He leaves 

y Sic. his wife Jane his executrix, but she 

z An apothecary and royallist, dying before him, his will was 

Diar. Hearne. proved by his son Arthur in 1693 : 

a [Arthur Tillyard the elder, here which Arthur, also an apothecary 

mentioned, executed his last will in Oxford, died in 1696, in which 



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living in Oxon. and by others, who esteemed themselves 
either virtuosi or wits; of which the chiefest number 
were of Alls. coll. as Peter Pett, Thorn. Millington, Tim. 
Baldwin, b Christop. Wren, Georg Castle, Will. Bull, &c. 



year he makes a will leaving his 
dear and loving brother Mr. Rich- 
ard Bentley stationer of London 
his executor. It appears that 
Bentley and Anne Tillyard his 
widow renouncing, administration 
was granted to his daughter Mar- 
garet Tillyard. There was a third 
Arthur Tillyard, son and grandson 
of the two former, who became a 
clerk of All Souls coll. in 1689, 
B. A. June 30, 1693, M. A. as a 
member of Alban Hall, April 30, 
1697. 

I find in 1598 administration 
granted to Elizabeth the wife of 
Peter Porie, of the effects of Chris- 
topher Tillyard, a native of Oxford, 
matr. Feb. 11. 1591. of Christ 
Church, set. 17. 

The following inventory of his 
effects will afford a striking illus- 
tration of the habits and require- 
ments of a young scholar in the 
days of Elizabeth. It is printed 
verbatim from the original. 

" A trewe inventorye of all y e 
goods of Christophar Tilyard of 
y e vniversitie of Oxon. bachelor 
of artes, late deceased. 

Imprimis Natalis comitis 2s. 6d. 

Item Tullis orations 2s. 6d. 

Donet vpon y e Ethickes iod, 

Juels Apologie . . rod. 

Vallerius Maximus 8d. 

Parkins vpon y e 

Lordes prayer . . 8d. 

Saunderson's lodgike 6d. 



A testament in lattin 6d. 

Tullie de oratore . . 4d. 

Oved's metamorphoses 4d. 

Osorius agaynst Haddon 6d. 

Aristotle's Ethicks iod. 

2 Pallengenius . . 6d. 

Aristotle's lodgicke iod. 

Cammerarious vpon 

tusculus qs'ti . . 8d. 

An answere of y e bi- 
shop of Winchester 4d. 

Silva sinonimoru . . 4d. 

Apthonius and Clares 

gramer . . . . 6d. 

Hiperivs' phisickes and 

gouldin chayne . . 8d. 

Horrace uinutiosu epistols 6d. 

Other ould bookes val- 
lued at 2s. 6d. 

11 mappes and paper is. 8d. 

5 singinge bookes . . I2d. 

An ould cheste . . i6d. 

2 dobletes 2 payre of 

hose & frise Jerkin 10s. od. 
An ould cloth gowne and 

a rugge gowne . . 10s. od. 

3 shirtes and a hatte 6s. 8d. 

4 bandes i6d. 

Showes&stockingesould2s. 6d. 
A bachelor's hoode and 

cappe 5s. od. 

In monye . . vij 11 5s od. 



Somme 



xi 11 2s. 4d. 



Archiv. Univ. Oxon.~] 

b Christopher Wren, afterwards 
sir Christopher. W. & H. 



1656.] LIFE OF WOOD. 65 

There were others also, as Joh. Lamphire a physician, 
lately ejected from New coll. who was somtimes the natural 
droll of the company, the two Wrens, sojournours in Oxon. 
Mathew and Thomas, sons of D r . Wren bishop of Ely, &c. 
This coffey house continued till his majestie's returne and 
after, and then they became more frequent, and had an 
excise set upon coffey. 

By this time A. W. had genuine skill in musick, and 1656. 
frequented the weekly meetings of musitians in the house 8 Car - IL 
of Will. Ellis, late organist of S. John's coll. situat andprot. 
being in a house, opposite to that place whereon the theater 
was built. The usual company that met and performed 
their parts were (1) Joh. Cock, M. A. fellow of New coll. 
by the authority of the visitors. He afterwards became 
rector of H ey ford- War eyne neare Bister, and marrying 
with one of the Woodwards of Woodstock, lived an un- 
comfortable life with her. (2) Joh. Jones, M. A. fellow of 
the said coll. by the same authority. (3) Georg Croke, 
M. A. d of the said coll. also by the same authority. He 
was afterwards drown' d, with Brome, son of Brome Whor- 
wood of Halton neare Oxon. in their passage from Hamp- 
shire to the Isle of Wight, 5 Sept. 1657. (4) Joh. Friend, 
M. A. fellow also of the said house and by the same au- 
thority. He died in the country an. 1658. (5) Georg 
Stradling, M. A. fellow of Alls. coll. an admirable lutinist, 
and much respected by Wilson the professor. (6) Ralph 
Sheldon, gent, a Bom. Catholick of Steple-Barton in 
Oxfordshire, at this time living in Halywell neare Oxon. 
admired for his smooth and admirable way in playing on 

the viol. He died in the city of Westminster 

165 , and was buried in the chancel of the church of S. 
Martin in the fields. (7) Thorn. Wren, a yonger son of 

c Had some genuine. Diar. d Fellow adjiciend. ut videtur. 

Hearne. Hearne. 

WOOD, VOL. I. F 



66 LIFE OF WOOD. [1656. 

Matthew Wren bishop of Ely, a sojoumour now in the 
house of Franc. Bowman, bookseller, living in S. Marie's 
parish in Oxon. (8) Tho. e James, M. A. of Magd. coll. 
would be among them, but seldome played. He had a 
weekly meeting in his chamber at the coll. practiced much 
on the Theorbo lute, and Gervace Westcote being often 
with him as an instructor, A. W. would somtimes go to 
their meeting and play with them. 

The musick masters, who were now in Oxon. and fre- 
quented the said meeting, were (1) f Will. Ellis, bach, of 
musick, owner of the house wherein the meeting was. He 
alwaies play'd his part either on the organ or virginal. 
(2) Dr. Joh. Wilson, the public professor, the best at the 
lute in all England. He somtimes played on the lute, 
but mostly presided the consort. (3) - - - Curteys, a 
lutinist, lately ejected from some choire or cath. church. 
After his majestie's restoration he became gent, or singing- 
man of Ch. Church in Oxon. (4) Tho. Jackson, a bass- 
violist; afterwards one of the choire of S. John's coll. in 
Oxon. (5) gEdw. Low, organist lately of Ch. Church. 

e Reponendum vel Janes (quo being discountenanced by the 

modo legitur infra, sub an. 1663.) presbyterians and independents, 

vel Jeanes. Hearne. because it favoured much the ca- 

f After cathedrals and organs thedrals and episcopacy, it was the 

were put down in the grand re- more used. But when king Charles 

bellion, he kept up a weekly meet- was restored and episcopacy and 

ing in his house opposite to that cathedrals with it, then did the 

place where the theatre was after- meetings decay, especially for this 

wards built, which kept him and reason, because the masters of mu- 

his wife in a comfortable condition. sick were called away to cathedrals 

The meetingwas much frequented, and collegiate choirs. — Wood's 

and many masters of musick were MSS. mus. Ashm. 8568, 106. 

there, and such that had belonged W. & H. 

to choirs, being out of all employ, s Edward Lowe of Salisbury, 

and therefore the meeting, as all master of the choristers, and or- 

other musick meetings, did flou- ganist of Ch. Ch. died xi July 

rish; and musick, especially vocal, 1682. buried by Alice his wife in 



1656.] LIFE OF WOOD. 67 

He played only on the organ ; so when he performed his 
part, Mr. Ellis would take up a counter-tenor viol, and 
play, if any person were wanting to performe that part. 
(6) Gervace Littleton alias Westcot, or Westcot alias Lit- 
tleton, a violist. He was afterwards a singing man of S. 
John's coll. (7) Will. h Glexney, who had belonged to a 
choire before the warr. He was afterwards a gent, or 
singing-man of Ch. Ch. He playd well upon the bass-viol, 
and somtimes sung his part. He died 6 Nov. 1692, aged 
79 or thereabouts. (8) - - - - Proctor, a yong man and 
a new commer. He died soon after, as I shall tell you 
anon. John Parker, one of the universitie musitians, would 
be somtimes among them; but M r . Low, a proud man, 
could not endure any common musitian to come to the 
meeting, much less to play among them. Among these I 
must put Joh. Haselwood an apothecary, a starched formal 
clisterpipe, who usually played on the bass-viol, and somtimes 
on the counter tenor. He was very conceited of his skil (tho 
he had but little of it) and therefore would be ever and 
anon ready to take up a viol before his betters : which being 
observed by all, they usually calFd him, Handlewood. As 
for other musitians, who were about this time beginners, 
you shall have the names of them under the yeare 1658. 

- - - Proctor 1 died in Halywell, and was buried in the July 22. 
middle of the church there. He had been bred up by 
J Mr. Joh. Jenkyns, the mirrour and wonder of his age for 

the upper end of the Divinity Maidstone in Kent, and being na- 

chapel, on the north side of the turally inclined to musick took it 

choire of Ch. Church cathedral. — in his childhood, and in his manly 

Wood's MSS. mus. Ashm. 8466. years patronized by Deerham 

W. & H. of Norf. esquire; and though a 

h Queereif not Flexney. W.&H. little man yet he had a great 

1 [Burials. Anno Dom. 1656. soul. 
Joseph Procter, gent. July 22. He was also much patronized 

Regist. of Holywell.~] by Edward Benlowes, esq ; who 

J John Jenkyns was born at having written a most divine poem 

f2 



68 LIFE OF WOOD. [1656. 

music, was excellent for the lyra-viol and division-viol, 
good at the treble-viol and treble-violin, and all compre- 
hended in a man of three or four and twentie yeares of 
age. He was much admired at the meetings, and exceed- 
ingly pittied by all the faculty for his loss. 

This summer came to Oxon. The Antiquities of War- 
wickshire &c. written by Will. Dugdale, and adorned with 
many cuts. This being accounted the best book of it's 
kind that hitherto was made extant, my pen cannot enough 
describe, how A. Wood's tender affections, and insatiable 
desire of knowledg, were ravished and melted downe by 
the reading of that book. What by musick and rare books 
that he found in the public library, his life, at this time 
and after, was a perfect Elysium. 

Oct. 29. In the latter end of Octob. he began to survey and 

transcribe the monumental inscriptions and armes in the 
several parochial churches and college chappels, within the 
city and universitie of Oxon. 

Jan. 10. A. W. his mother, and his two brothers, Rob. and Chris- 

topher Wood, gave 5 li to Merton coll. towards the casting 
of their five bells into eight. These five were antient bells, 
and had been put up k into the tower at the first building 
thereof, in the time of D r . Hen. Abendon, warden of Mer- 
ton coll. who began to be warden in 1421. The tenor or 
great bell (on which the name of the said Abendon was put) 

entit. Theophila or Love's Sacri- John Wilson, above mentioned, 

fice printed at London 1651, se- used to say that, for the honour 

veral parts thereof had airs set to of his country, Alphonso Fara- 

them by this incomparable Jen- bosco born of Italian parents at 

kyns, who lived ten yeares or Greenwich, and John Jenkyns at 

more after the restoration of Maidstone, were admired not only 

K. C. 2. in England but beyond the seas 

He was esteemed the prime com- for their excellent compositions. — 

poser living in the latter end of Wood's MSS. mus. Ashm. 8568. 

the reign of K. C. 1. in the reign 106. W. & H. 
of Oliver C. and K. C. 2. Dr. k In the tower. Diar. Hearne. 



1656.] LIFE OF WOOD. 69 

was supposed to be the best bell in England, being, as 
'twas said, of fine mettal silver found. 1 The generality of 
people were much against the altering of that bell, and 
were for a treble to be put to the five, and so make them 
six : and old sarjeant Charles Hollo way, who was a very 
covetous man, would have given money to save it, and to 
make the five, six, bells, that is to put a treble to them. 
But by the knavery of Thorn. Jones, the sub -warden (the 
warden being then absent) and - - - - Derby, the bell- 
founder, they were made eight. Dr. Joh. Wilson, Dr. of 
musick, had a fee from the college to take order about 
their tuning. 

Whereas A. W. had before learned to play on the violin 
by the instructions of Charles Griffith, and afterwards of 
Jo. Parker, one of the universitie musitians, he was now 
advised to entertaine one Will. James, a dancing master, Jan. 
by some accounted excellent for that instrument, and the 
rather, because it was said, that he had obtained his know- 
ledg in dancing and musick in France. He spent in all 
half a yeare with him, and gained some improvement from 
him j yet at length he found him not a compleat master 
of his facultie, as Griffith and Parker were not : and to say 
the truth, there was yet no compleat master in Oxon. for 
that instrument, because it had not been hitherto used in 
consort among gentlemen, only by common musitians, who 
played but two parts. The gentlemen in privat meetings, 
which A. W. frequented, played three, four and five parts 
with viols, as treble-viol, tenor, counter-tenor and bass, 
with an organ, virginal or harpsicon joyn'd with them : 
and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only be- 
longing to a common fidler, and could not indure that it 



1 Sic MSS. Neque aliter in Diario. Et tamen sound edidi in Neu- 
brigensi, p. 797. Hearne. 



70 LIFE OF WOOD. [ I( ^57 • 

should come among them, for feare of making their meet- 
ings to be vaine and fidling. But before the restoration 
of K. Ch. 2. and especially after, viols began to be out of 
fashion, and only violins used, as treble-violin, tenor and 
bass-violin ; and the king, according to the French mode, 
would have 24 violins playing before him, while he was at 
meales, as being more airie and brisk than viols. 
1657. At the funeral of m Jane Wickham, the widdow and 

? J! r * ' somtimes the second wife of Will. Wickham of Garsingdon, 
$ Ohv. D 

Prot. neare Oxon. gent. Shee was buried in the chancel of the 

Mar. 27. church there by the remaines of the said W. Wickham. 
This woman was sister to Hen. Brome, of Clifton neare 
Banbury in Oxfordshire (of the same familie with the 
Bromes of Halton) and died in Oxon. 25 March. A. W. 
did not then survey the monuments in Garsingdon church, 
because of the company there, but rode immediately home 
to Oxon. 

Apr. 30. He began his perambulation of Oxfordshire : and the 

monuments in Wolvercot church were the first that he 
surveyed and transcribed. n 

May 14. All the eight bells of Merton coll. did begin to ring : 

and he heard them ring very well at his approach to Oxon. 
in the evening, after he had taken his rambles all that day 
about the country to collect monuments. The bells did 
not at all please the curious and critical hearer. However 

m Jane Wickham widow, some- and sister to Henry Brome who 

times the 2 d . wife of William Wick- died 1667. 

ham of Garsington in comitatu The said William Wickham was 

Oxon. died in the house of Wil- the son of John Wickham of 

liam Webb a bookseller, living in Rotherfeild in Sussex, but de- 

the parish of St. Peter's in the scended from the Wickhams of 

East, 25 Mar. an. 1657. and was Swaclyve. Wood's MSS. mus. 

buried in the chancell of Garsing- Ashm. No. 8505. 8586. W. & H. 

ton by her husband. n See Catalogue of Wood's 

She was the daughter of - - - - MSS. in mus. Ashm. No. 8505, 

Brome, of Clifton near Banbury, 8586. W. & H. 



1657.] LIFE OF WOOD. 71 

he plucked at them often with some of his fellow-colleagues 
for recreation sake. They were all afterwards re-cast, and 
the belfry, wherein the ringers stood (which was a little 
below the arches of the tower, for while the five hanged 
the ringers stood on the ground) being built of bad timber, 
was plucked downe also, and after the bells were put up 
againe, this belfry, that now is, above the arches, was new 
made, and a window broke thro the tower next to Corp. 
Ch. coll. was made to give light. 

He began to peruse and run over all the manuscript Aug. 4. 
collections of the great antiquary John Leland, that are 
reposed in the archives of Bodlie's library. He was ex- 
ceedingly delighted in them, was never weary of them, but 
collected much from them. 

In his rambles about the country, he went to Dor- Aug. 14. 
Chester, seven miles distant from Oxon. to see his old 
master David Thomas, who, from being usher of Thame 
school, was now the head-master of the free-school at 
Dorchester, founded by Joh. Feteplace, esq. an old ba- 
chelaur. He had succeeded in that office Joh. Drope, 
lately fellow of Magd. coll. who was the first master ap- 
pointed by the founder. A. W. could not but here ac- 
knowledge his owne weakness, you may call it folly if you 
please, as being startled at his first sight of this most 
antient city, famous for it's being a station of the Romanes, 
for it's entertaining S. Birinus, and afterwards for giving 
him burial, &c. The church is larg and antique, and hath 
contained many monuments of antiquity, which are since 
spoyled and defaced. Those that °remaine he took an 
account of, as also of the armes in the windowes, and 
tricked out with his pen the ichnography of the church, 
cloyster and buildings adjoyning. P And at his departure 

Remaind. Diar. Hearne. MSS. in mus. Ashm. N°. 8564. 

p See Catalogue of Wood's W. & H. 



72 LIFE OF WOOD. [1657. 

Mr. Dav. Thomas gave him some Roman coynes, found 
within the libertie of Dorchester. 
Sept. 5. Brome Whorwood, lately gent. com. of S. Marie's hall, 

only son and heir of Brome Whorwood of Halton neare 
Oxon. was drowned in his passage from Hampshire to the 
Isle of Wight. He had been at the election of scholars at 
Winchester, and being minded to see the Isle of Wight, 
did with George Croke q of New coll. hire a vessel that was 
leaky, which sunk by that time they were half way in their 
journey. I set this memoire downe, because A. W. had 
acquaintance with both of them. The mother of the said 
Brome Whorwood, who was drown' d, was Jane, daughter 
and one of the two coheires of - - - - Ryther of King- 
ston upon Thames in Surrey, somtimes surveyor of the 
stables of K. Jam. I. and dau. in law to James Maxwell, 
esq. one of the gromes of the bed-chamber to K. Ch. I. as 
having married her mother after Byther's death. A. W. 
remembred her well, as having often seen her in Oxon. 
She was red-hair' d, as her sone Brome was, and was the 
most loyal person to K. Ch. I. in his miseries, r as any 
woman in England, as it appeares by several exploits, that 
she performed in order to his preservation ; among which 
I shall set downe these two. 

After his majestie had been taken away from Holdenby, 
he was conveyed by easie removals to Hampton court Au- 
gust 1647, at which time the citizens of London were very 
unruly, had alienated their affections from the parliament, 
were very averse to the army, and wholly enclin'd to his 
majestie, as having a designe to get him among them, 
settle him in the parliam. house, and so conclude a peace. 
His maj. knew all this, and knew the insolencies and 

1 So it should be read, tho' it otherwise than Crake in the Diary, 
be Crake in the MS. Neither is it Hearne. r F. of. Hearne. 



1657.] LIFE OF WOOD. 73 

threatning of the parliam. soldiers which they gave out to 
destroy him, being animated so to do by the cabal of par- 
liam. officers sitting at Putney, which therefore made him 
think of an escape from Hampton court, if he could well 
know to what place he could goe. Jane Whorwood know- 
ing this, shee went to Will. Lillie the astronomer, living 
in the Strand within the libertie of Westminster, to receive 
his judgment about it, that is to say, in what quarter of 
the nation he might be most safe, and not be discovered 
till himself pleased. When shee came to his dore, Lilly 
told her, he would not let her come in, for he had buried 
a maid-servant of the plague very lately. " I fear e not the 
plague but the pox," saith shee. So he let her in, and went 
up staires. After Lillie had erected his figure, he told her, 
that about 20 miles from London and in Essex, he was 
certaine the king might continue undiscovered. Shee liked 
his judgment very well, and being herself of a sharp judg- 
ment, remembred a place in Essex about that distance, 
where was an excellent house, and all conveniencies for his 
reception, &c. Away shee went early next morning to 
Hampton court, to acquaint his majestie; but see the 
misfortune, he either guided by his owne approaching hard 
fate, or misguided by - - - - - Ashburnham, went to 
Tichfield in Hampshire, and surrendred himself to col. 
Rob. Hammond, governour of the Isle of Wight. A. W. 

has heard from W. Lilly, that alderm. - Adams 

of London, sent to his maj. at Hampton court a thousand 
pound in gold : five hundred pound of which was put into 
Jane Whorwood's hands, who gave Lilly for this and other 
judgments 20 u . of the same money, as the said Lilly 
usually reported. 

Another loyal exploit was this. His majestie being in 
Caresbrok castle in the said Isle of Wight, the Kentish 
men were then in armes for him, and joined with the 



74 LIFE OF WOOD. [1657. 

lord - - - - Goring. A considerable number of the best 
ships also revolted from the parliament, and the citizens 
of London were forward to rise against the parliament : 
whereupon his majestie designed an escape thence, if he 
could tell how. A smal ship was provided and anchored 
not far from the castle to bring him into Sussex, and horses 
were provided ready to carry him thro Sussex into Kent, 
and from thence to march immediately to London, where 
thousands would have armed for him &c. These things 
being knowne among the king's friends, and particularly 
to Jane Whorwood, she repaires againe to Lillie, and ac- 
quaints him with the matter : whereupon he got GL Farmer, 
a most ingenious locksmith dwelling in Bow lane in Lon- 
don, to make a saw to cut iron barrs asunder, I meane to 
saw them, and aquafortis besides. These things being 
quickly obtained, his maj. in a smal time did his worke. 
The barrs gave libertie to him to go out, and he was out 
with his body till he came to his breasts, but then his 
heart failing, he proceeded no farther; so afterwards he 
was kept closer. These things A. W. had from Will. Lilly; 
who told him, (and so he afterwards found it among some 
of his notes) that the said Jane Whorwood came to him 
againe (upon the direction, as he thought, of Will, lord 
Say) to know from the perusal of his figure, whether his 
majestie should signe the propositions sent to him by the 
parliament, so soon as they were read: to which Will. 
Lillie consenting, and that it was his only way so to doe, 
which by her, or her letters, were communicated to his 
majestie, yet the said lord Say ( s then one of the commis- 
sioners from the parliament for a peace) did, after his ma- 
jestie had communicated his intentions to him what to 
doe, perswade him from signing the said propositions, 

s Sic cum punctis (ab ipso auc- esse, ni fallor, indicantibus. 
tore) parenthesi inclusa, delenda Hearne. 



x657-] life OF WOOD. 75 

telling him, they were not fit for him to signe, that he 
(Say) had many friends in the H. of lords, and some in 
the house of commons, and he would procure more, and 
then they would frame more easie propositions, &c. This 
perswasion of that unfortunate lord occasioned his maj. to 
wave the advice of Lilly and others, &c. This Jane Whor- 
wood is the same lady mentioned in the Ath. et Fasti 
Oxon. where youT find that K. Ch. I. had put into her 
hands a cabinet of pretious Jewells, to be by her kept till 
such time that he should send for them ; which he did a 
little before his death : and what passed thereupon, you 
may see there. * But all these things being spoken by the 
by, let's proceed. 

A. W. went to Einsham, to see an old kinsman, called Sept. 16. 
Thorn. Barncote. He was there wonderfully strucken with 
a veneration of the stately, yet much lamented, ruins of 
the abbey there, built before the Norman conquest. He 
saw then there two high towers at the west end of the 
church, and some of the north walls of the church standing. 
He spent some time with a melancholy delight in taking 
a prospect of the ruins of that place. u All which, toge- 
ther with the entrance or lodg, were soon after puPd 
downe, and the stones sold to build houses in that towne 
and neare it. The place hath yet some ruins to shew, 
and to instruct the pensive beholder with an exemplary 
frailty. 

At about eleven or twelve at noon (Merton college bells Dec. 24. 
being then ringing) Will. Bull, fellow of Allsouls coll. and 
Hen. Hawley, fellow of Oriel, were with A. W. at his 

* It was not to M rs . Jane Whor- Memoirs, p. 122. 150. W. & H. 

wood that the jewels were in- u This prospect is now in the 

trusted, but to the lady of S r . W. Ashmolean museum. It was lately 

Wheeler, the king's laundress. engraved, but without any notice 

See Athene Oxon. under the of Mr. Wood. (Wood's MSS. in 

year 1681. Sir Thomas Herbert's mus. Ashm. 8505.) W. & H. 



76 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 57- 

lodging neare Merton coll. and smiling upon him and upon 
each other, they told him, he must walk with them to S. 
Barthelmew's hospital, neare Oxon. and dine there with 
them and others of his acquaintance, but would not tell 
him, who they were, or upon what account. He went 
forthwith with them, and comming there about one of the 
clock, who should he see there, newly up from his bed and 
ready, but Edmund Gregory, bach, of arts, lately gentle- 
man com. of Merton coll.? who, in the evening before, 
had conveyed thither a yong gentlewoman of 15 yeares of 

age, named Pottinger, of Choulesley neare Wal- 

lingford in Berks, whome he had stole from her parents. 
They were married early that morning in the chappel of 
S. Barthelmew's hospital, which being done, he bedded 
her for feare of a pursuit. The company sat downe be- 
tween one and two of the clock in the afternoon, after the 
bridegroom had presented his bride smiling to them. They 
tarried till 'twas dark, and then went to Cuxham neare 
Watlington, where, or neare it, his father lived. 

Afterwards this Edm. Gregory, who had a faire estate 
left him by his father, and had a good estate with his yong 
wife, lived very high, farr beyond his income, was high- 
sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1680; at which time being deeply 
in debt and beyond recovery, his aforesaid wife died of 
grief at Cuxham in June 1683. About which time Mr. 
Gregorie's estate being all either sold or mortgaged, he 
kept some small matter for himself, retired to or neare 
Bagshot neare Windsor, under a Strang name, and died, 
and was buried there. 
Jan. 14. He (A. W.) went with the societie of Merton coll. to 

See in the Haseley, about 7 miles distant from Oxon. being all invited 
Fasti to the funeral of Dr. Edw. Corbet, rector of that towne, 
who was then and there (in the chancel) buried. He had 
taken a view of the monuments there before. 



1657-] life OF WOOD. 77 

Edm. Greg, and his new wife in Oxon. A. W. attended Mar. 12. 
them, shewed them the public libr. Anatomy school, &c. 

Or thereabouts his cozen Joh. Taverner, son and heir of 17- 
Joh. Tav. of Soundess neare Nettlebed in Oxfordsh. esq ;, 
died at Greys-inn, and was buried in S. Andrew's-ch. in 
Holborne neare London. His sister Mary, the wife of 
Joh. Harris of Silkstede neare to Winchester, was his 
heire. 

He walked to Osney, where seeing a poore man digging 23. 
in the ruins, he shewed A. W. a leaden impression or the 
seal of pope John 23, which he bought of him. 

Will. Byrd of Hallywell in the suburbs of Oxon. stone- 
cutter, did in the latter end of this yeare find out the 
paynting or stayning of marble : a specimen of which he 
presented to the king after his restoration, as also the 
queen, and in 1669 to Cosmo prince of Tuscany when in 
Oxon. 

In the latter end of this yeare x Davis Mell, y the most 
eminent violinist of London, being in Oxon. Peter Pett, 
Will. Bull, Ken. Digby, and others of Allsoules, as also 
A. W. did give a very handsome entertainment in the 
taverne, caFd The Salutation, in S. Marie's parish Oxon. 

own'd by Tho. Wood, son of Wood of Oxon. som- 

times servant to the father of A. W. The company did 
look upon Mr. Mell to have a prodigious hand on the 
violin, and they thought that no person, as all in London 

x David or Davys Mell, the emi- The chief or master of the hand 

nent Violinist of London and clock- of K. Charles I. 
maker, being in Oxon. Diar. He had an excellent facultie in 

Hearne. making catches. 

y Mell Davis, the best violinist He hath compositions in court- 

of his time, and though Thomas ly masquing ayres : containing 

Baltzar went beyond him in quick- almanes, ayres, corants, published 

ness of stopping, yet Mell play'd by John Playford. Wood's MSS. 

sweeter. in mus. Ashm. 8568. W. & H. 



78 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 

did, could goe beyond him. But when Tho. Baltser, an 
outlander, came to Oxon. in the next yeare, they had other 
thoughts of Mr. Mell, who tho he played farr sweeter than 
Baltsar, yet Baltsar's hand was more quick, and could run 
it insensibly to the end of the finger-board. 
l6 5 8 - Will. George, bach, of arts and student of Ch. Church, 

10 Car. II. . 

5 Oliv. was buried in the chancel of Garsingdon church neare 

1 Rich. Oxon. This person had been tutor to the children of Joh. 

Apr. 5. Wickham of that towne gent, and when resident in the 
universitie, was accounted a noted sophister, and remarkable 
courser in the time of Lent in the publick schooles. He 
was poore, and therefore ready to make the exercise of 
dul or lazy scholars. He could not, for want of money, 
take the degree of master ; yet the generality of scholars 
thought, that if he had money, he would not, because 
otherwise he should not be accounted the best scholar of a 
bach, of arts in Oxon. as he was. He looked elderly, and 
was cynical and hersute in his behaviour. 

Apr 13. Easter Tuesday Chr. Wood (brother to A. W.) was mar- 

ried to Elizabeth Seymour. 

Apr. 13. j^j. o uxnam ^ w ith other of his acquaintance, in the 

house of Mr. Gregory ; where continuing 3 dayes, he went 
to several townes, to collect monumental inscriptions and 
armes, as at Watlington, Bright well, &c. z 

a Alderm. Joh. Nixon's school, in the yard belonging to 

z See Wood's MSS. in mus. the sonns of poore freemen with 

Ashm. 8586. W. & H. the said city. (Note that tho' he 

a John Nixon, alderman of Ox- had got all his estate by the uni- 
on, and sometimes mayor of the versitie yet no caution was taken 
same, son of John Nixon of for poore priviledged men's sons.) 
Blechington in com. Oxon. hus- Till such purchase were made, 
bandman. He granted by a deed, the mayor, bayliffs and cominalty 
dated 13 Jan. 1658, 600I. to pur- of the city (in whose hand the 
chase 30I. per an. for the salary 600I. was paid) and their succes- 
of a schoolmaster to teach 40 boys, sors were to pay 30I. per an. 



i6 5 8.] 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



79 



the Guildhall of Oxon. being finishd, the first boyes made 
their entry ; some of which were afterwards, by the help 
of another school, academians. 

A maid was hanged at Greenditch neare Oxon. for mur- May 4. 
dering her infant-bastard. After shee was cut downe and 
taken away to be anatomized, - - - - Coniers, a physitian 
of S. John's coll. b and other yong physitians, did in short 
time bring life into her. But the bayllives of the towne 
hearing of it, they went between 12 and one of the clock 
at night to the house where she laid, and putting her into 
a coffin, carried her into the Broken hayes, and by a halter 
about her neck drew her out of it, and hung her on a tree 



Which time was also declared, 
that a convenient school-house by 
them erected within the court or 
yard belonging to the Guildhall 
of the city shall be for ever con- 
tinued to that according to the 
rules left by the founder. 

The first 40 boyes were admitted 
19 Apr. 1659, Munday. 

The allies of Joh. and Joan 
Nixon, and Matthew Martin, toun- 
clerke, are to be preferred among 
those 40 boyes. He died the 14 
Apr. 1662, and was buried in St. 
Marie's church near the larg south 
dore. Wood's MSS. in mus. 
Ashm. 8518. W. & H. 

b [William Conyers, the son 
of Will. Conyers of Waltham- 
stow in Essex, gent, was a na- 
tive of Northamptonshire, edu- 
cated at Merchant Taylor's school, 
whence being elected a scholar of 
St. John's coll. he was matricu- 
lated July 12, 1639, aged 16; 
B. A. Apr. 20, 1643; M. A. Dec. 
8, 1646. And in 1648 was ousted 



from his fellowship by the parlia- 
mentarian visitors. It would seem 
that he afterwards became less ob- 
noxious to the ruling power; for 
on the 25th of June, 1653, the de- 
legates of the university order, 
" That Mr. Will. Conyers fellow 
" of St. John's coll. and M. A. of 
" above 7 yeares standinge be dis- 
" pensed with for taking the de- 
" gree of Dr. in physicke by ac- 
" cumulation : provided he give 
" in sufficient caution for per- 
" forming all exercise required 
" thereto." Reg. Convoc. He was 
admitted D. med. July 6, 1653. 
His name appears on the college 
registers as fellow till Sept. 1661, 
after which we lose all trace of 
him. There was another William 
Conyers the son of Tristram Con- 
yers of Walthamstow, who died a 
scholar of Wadham, set. 20. 1676. 
See an account of this family in 
Lysons's Environs of London, 
vol. iv. pp. 214, 225.] 



80 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 

there. She then was so sensible of what they were about 
to do, that she said, Lord have mercy upon mee, &c. The 
women were exceedingly enraged at it, cut downe the 
tree whereon she was hanged, and gave very ill language 
to Henry Mallory, one of the baillives, when they saw him 
passing the streets, because he was the chief man that 
hang'd her. And because that he afterwards broke, or 
gave up his trade thro povertie (being a cutler) they did 
not stick to say, that God's judgments followed him for 
the cruelty he shewed to the poore maid. 
See Dr. Plot Nat. Hist, of Ox. p. 199. 

July 14. A. W. entertained two eminent musitians of London, 

nam'd Joh. Gamble and Tho. Pratt, after they had enter- 
tained him with most excellent musick at the meeting 
house of Will. Ellis. Gamble had obtain' d a great name 

See Ath. among the musitians of Oxon. for his book before pub- 

Oxon STI nsn, d, entit. Ayres and Diologes to be sung to the Theorbo- 
Lute or Bass- Viol. The other for several compositions, 
which they played in their consorts. 

July 24. Tho. Balsar or Baltzar, a Lubecker borne, and the most 
famous artist for the violin that the world had yet pro- 
duced, was now in Oxon. and this day A. W. was with 
him and Mr. Edw. Low, lately organist of Ch. Church, at 
the meeting-house of Will. Ellis. A. W. did then and 
there, to his very great astonishment, heare him play on 
the violin. He then saw him run up his fingers to the 
end of the finger-board of the violin, and run them back 
insensibly, and all c in alacrity and in very good tune, 
which he d any in England saw the like before. A. W. 
entertained him and Mr. Low with what the house could 
then afford, and afterwards he invited them to the tavern ; 
but they being engaged to goe to other company, he could 

c With alacrity. Diar. Hearne. d L. nor cum Diario. Hearne. 



1658.] LIFE OF WOOD. 81 

no more heare him play or see him play at that time. 
Afterwards he came to one of the weekly meetings at Mr. 
Ellis's house, and he played to the wonder of all the audi- 
tory : and exercising his fingers and instrument several 
wayes to the utmost of his power, Wilson thereupon, the 
public professor, (the greatest judg of musick that ever was,) 
did, after his humoursome way, stoop downe to Baltzar's 
feet, to see whether he had a huff on, that is to say, to see, 
whether he was a devil, or not, because he acted beyond 
the parts of man. 

About that time it was, that e Dr. Joh. Wilkins, warden 
of Wadham coll. the greatest curioso of his time, invited 
him and some of the musitians to his lodgings in that coll. 
purposely to have a consort, and to see and heare him 
play. The instruments and books were carried thither, 
but none could be perswaded there to play against him in 
consort on the violin. At length the company perceiving 
A. W. standing behind in a corner neare the dore, they 



e Extract of a letter from Jo. Society ; 200I. to Wadham col- 
Brooke to Dr. Martin Lister, dated lege ; and, 'tis said, not above 8 
Dec. 14, 1672, in the collection or 900I. to his lady; Dr. Tillotson, 
presented to the museum at Ox- his executor : he seemed not to 
ford by Dr. John Fothergill of be much surprized at the news of 
London. death, but said he was prepared 

— Since my last, the death of for the great experiment. On 
that excellent prelate (the bishop Thursday last he was interred, and 
of Chester) has been not a little Dr. Lloyd preached the funeral 
lamented, whose distemper was sermon. Tho' it proved a very 
mistaken ; who died of a stoppage wet day yet his corps were very 
of urin, but not caused by the honourably attended; I believe 
stone (as was imagined.) Mr. there were above 40 coaches, with 
Wray guessed the nearest ; but six horses ; besides a great muri- 
ne forbore all diuretical things, ber of others, 
which (as they apprehend since) See also Biographia Brit. Ar- 
had been the most effectual (in tide Wilkins. pag. 4273. Note T. 
all humane reason) for his re- W. & H. 
covery. He left 400I. to the Royal 

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82 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 5^- 

haled him in among them, and play, forsooth, he must 
against him. Whereupon he being not able to avoid it, 
he took up a violin, and behaved himself as poor Troylus 
did against Achilles. He was abashed at it, yet honour he 
got by playing with and against such a grand master as 
Baltzar was. Mr. f Davis Mell was accounted hitherto the 
best for the violin in England, as I have before told you ; 
but after Baltzar came into England, and shewed his most 
wonderful parts on that instrument, Mell was not so ad- 
mired, yet he playd sweeter, was a well bred gentleman, 
and not given to excessive drinking as Baltzar was. 
Aug. 30. Munday, a terrible raging wind hapned, which did much 

SpP .A. TFT 

& Fasti hurt. Dennis Bond, a great Olivarian and antimonarchist, 
Oxon. ^g^ on ^^ ^ a ^ an( j th en the Devil took Bond for Oliver's 

appearance. 
Sept. 3. Oliver Cromwell the protector died. This I set downe, 

because some writers tell us, that he was hurried away 
by the Devill in the s wind before mentioned. 
6. Richard Cromwell his son was proclaimed protector at 

Oxon. at the usual places where kings have been pro- 
claimed. While he was proclaiming before S. Marie's 
church dore, the mayor, recorder, townclerk, &c. accom- 
panied by col. Unton Croke h and his troopers, were pelted 

f Dav. Mell. Diar. Hearne. Job. Penruddock, Hugh Grove, 

£ Which they make to have &c. and other cavaliers when they 

happened upon Sept. 3. upon rose at Salisbury in March 1654 — 

which day likewise the earl of Cla- died at Marston near Oxon. 28 

rendon (by mistake) fixes the wind, Jan. 1670, aged 77, and was bu- 

and not on Aug. 30th. Hearne. ried in the church there. He mar- 

h Unton Croke, counsellour at ried Anne Hore dau. and heir of 

law, (father to Richard Croke, Kt.) Rich. Hore of Merston by Mary 

made serjeant at law by Oliver his wife. — Wood's MSS. in mus. 

Cromwell, 21 June 1654, for the Ashm. 8466. W. & H. — [He 

good service his son major (after- was the fourth son of sir John 

wards colonel) Unton Croke did Croke, judge of the king's bench; 

for Oliver in the West against col. born about 1594, and named Un- 



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with carret and turnip-tops, by yong scholars, and others, 
who stood at a distance. 

He went to Stoke-Lyne, to give a visit to his kinsman Oct. 18. 
Charnel Pettie and his wife, and other of his relations 
there. He continued there till the 22 of the said month : 
in which time he rode about the country adjoyning, and 
collected several monuments and armes. He was at Cots- 



ton after his grandmother; a stu- 
dent of the Inner Temple 1609; 
called to the bar 1616; and the 
next year married Anne, daughter 
and heiress of Richard Hore, esq. 
of Marston. He was member of 
pari, for Wallingford in the par- 
liaments of 1625 and 1640, and 
in 1654 was called to the degree 
of serj. at law. His wife died in 
1670, leaving him with ten chil- 
dren; he died 28 Jan. T671, set. 
77, both being buried at Marston. 
D r . Owen, the parliamentarian dean 
of Ch. Ch. had been very urgent 
with Cromwell to make Unton 
Croke a judge, but from some 
cause or other was unsuccessful. 

Unton Croke, the son of the 
serj., accompanied Whitelock to 
Sweden. In the account of this 
embassy, he is styled " Captain 
Unton Croke, of the army, kins- 
man to Whitelock, son of serjeant 
Croke, of an ancient family in 
Oxfordshire, and of good parts 
and condition." He was confi- 
dentially employed by Cromwell, 
as appears from several of his let- 
ters printed in Thurloe's State Pa- 
pers, and he served with great 
bravery in the field ; but he was a 
bitter enemy to the university, and 



was one of those who, desirous of 
obtaining the revenues of the se- 
veral colleges, contended that 
three would be quite sufficient for 
the nation, and for the " breeding 
of men up to learning, so far as it 
was either necessary or useful." 
South's Sermons, vol. i. p. 67. 
edit. Oxford, 1842. He lived 
long enough, however, to abjure 
his republican principles, and 
early in 1660, together with the 
regiment he then commanded, 
gave in their adhesion to the re- 
storation of Charles II. The exact 
date of his death is not known, 
but in 1693 he devised a house at 
Grandpont in Oxford, viz. "all 
that mansion house and garden 
in St. Aldate's, the street east, 
part of the river Thames west 
and north, and a garden south" 
to his three daughters, Gracious, 
Charity, and Eleanor. Charity 
and Eleanor conveyed their shares 
to Gracious, and she by will in 
1725, gave the premises to Elea- 
nor, then Mrs. Glyn, who in 1730 
conveyed it to Bridgett Trigg, 
widow, another sister, who sold it 
in i733toWill.Haynes,inn-holder. 
It was purchased by D r . Foulkes, 
the physician, in 1755.] 
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84 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 

ford, in hopes to find a monument there for his grand- 
father by his mother' s side, named Rob. Pettie, alias Le 
Petite, gent, but finding none, he searched in the register, 
and found, that he was buried on the 10 May 1612. 

Feb. 11. Nath. Crew, M. A. and fellow of Line. coll. brought to 

A. W. a petition, to present to the parliament against 
standing visitors in the university : to which, upon his 
desire, he set his hand, &c. The independents, who called 
themselves now the godly party, drew up another petition 
contrary to the former, and said, 'twas for the cause of 
Christ, &c. No person was more ready than Crew, a 
Presbyterian, to have the said visitors put downe, notwith- 
standing he had before submitted to them, and had paid 
to them reverence and obedience. 

Feb. 12. Egg-Saturday, Edward Bagshaw, M. A. and student of 

Ch. Ch. presented his bachelaurs ad determinandum, with- 
out having on him any formalities, whereas every deane 
besides had formalities on. D r . John Conant was then 
vicechancellour, but took no notice of Bagshaw. 

In this Lent, but the day when I cannot tell, A. W. 
went as a stranger with Thorn. Smith, Mr. of arts, (ejected 
his clerkship of Magd. coll. by the visitors 1648) living 
now obscurely in Oxon. I say he went with the said Mr. 
Smith on a certaine morning, to a private and lone house 
in or neare to Bagley wood, between Oxon. and Abendon, 
i inhabited by the lord of Sunningwell called Hannibal 
Baskervyle, esq;. k The house, called Bay worth, is an old 

1 Inhabited by the lord of Bay- of account, and first a remembrance 

worth, called Hannibal Baskervyle, of some monuments and reliques in 

esq. It is an old house, situated. the Church of St. Denniss and 

Diar. Hearne. thereabouts in Ff ranee by Hannibal 

k [A Transcript of some writeings Baskervyle who went into y t . coun- 

of Hanniball Baskervile, esq. as try w tli . an English ambassador in 

they were found scattered here and the reigne of king James. This 

there in his manuscripts and books MS. which is in D r . Rawlinson's 



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85 



house, situated in a romancy place, and a man that is 
given to devotion and learning, cannot find out a better 



collection in the Bodleian, con- 
tains several curious particulars 
relating to Oxford and the persons 
educated there, and the following 
brief particulars of Mr. Basker- 
vile himself. 

" April y e . 5, 1597. I was born 
at a town in Piccardy, called St. 
Vallery where was a deadly plague 
among y e . Ffrench, but it did not 
infect any of the English soldiers. 
I was christened by one Mr. Man 
y e . preacher, and I had all the 
captains, about 32, to be my god- 
fathers, it being the custome so 
of the wars, when the generall 
hath a son (they say;) but two 
only stood at the ffont or great 
bason, one was sir Arthur Savage, 
the other I can not remember his 
name. S r . Arthur Chichester was 
there, and other great men that 
have been since. My father S r .Tho- 
mas Baskervile died of a burning 
feavour at a town called Picqueny. 
I was then 9 weeks old." To this 
I may add, that he was instructed 
under the care of Peacham author 
of the Compleat Gentleman, &c. 
See his Minerva Brit anna, p. 
106. 

The following curious letter from 
sir Thomas Baskervile is printed 
from the original, among Mr. St. 
Amand's papers, in the Bodleian. 
It is the more proper for inser- 
tion, as the original is nearly worn 
out by damp and former neg- 
lect. 



To the Honorable Sr. Jhon 
Norreys, Knight, generall of the 
army thatt goe for Portugall. 

Honorable, 
I humbly desire your H. to 
thinke that the ocasion of my stay 
hear is nott for any dislike of the 
viage or of the generall, butt that 
itt is rather for wantt of means, 
for I assure you if I had gonn, 
noe man would have gonn with 
greater discreditt, for thatt for the 
most parte thatt I have apareled 
my solldiars itt hath bin vpon my 
creditt to the marchant for the 
which I have geven my perticuler 
bill, and nott vpon the provant 
masters, further my liftenant is 
in prison who wer vtterly lost if I 
wer wtdrawen, besides the disho- 
nor that would light one me for 
leving him ther, going into a new 
warr, besides I assure yow all 
thatt I have is in paun, which 
would be lost if I wentt. These 
thinges hatth causid me to seke 
the stay of my companye of my 
lo. generall, and nott any perti- 
culer dislike I have of your lo. or 
of the viag, the w ch . I humbly en- 
treatt your ho. to beleve, for in 
denieng to folow yow, I shuld 
shew my self wonderfull vndis- 
creet considering ther is so many 
my betters w ch . doe ytt, beside for 
the most part I have folowd yow 
since I knew the warrs, and if I 
hav lern'd any thinge I acknow- 



86 LIFE OF WOOD. [1658. 

place. In this house A. W. found a pretty oratory or 
chappel up one pair of staires, well furnish' d with velvet 
cusheons and carpets. There had been painted windowes 
in it, but defaced by Abendon soldiers (rebells) in the 
grand rebellion. He also found there an excellent organ 
in the said oratory : on which Mr. Smith performed the 
part of a good musitian, and sung to it. Mr. Baskervyle 
was well acquainted with him, and tooke delight to heare 
him play and sing. He was civil to them, but A. W. 
found him to be a melancholy and retired man ; and, upon 
enquirie farther of the person, he was told, that he gave 
the third or fourth part of his estate to the poor. He was 
so great a cherisher of wandring beggars, that he built for 
them a larg place like a barne to receive them, and hung 
up a little bell at his back-dore for them to ring when 
they wanted any thing. He had been several times in- 
dicted at Abendon sessions for harbouring beggars. In 
his yonger days, while he was a student of Brasnose coll. 
he would frequent the house of his kinswoman the lady 
Scudamore, opposite to Merton coll. church: at which 
time the mother of A. W. being a girle, and a sojournour 
in his father's house neare to it, he became acquainted 
with her : and when he knew that A. W. was her son, he 
was civil to him, and afterwards * frequented the house, 
especially in the time of his son Tho. Baskervyle, m to re- 

ledg itt from yow. Thus fearing l F. A. W. frequented. Hearne. 

to be over tedius I humbly desire m [The following extract is given 

yow to rest my honorable good from Hearne's MS. Memoranda, 

friend, and to excuse my cominge vol. xi. p. 38. " Thursday Feb. 

w ch . I desire you to imputt rather 9, 1720. This morning died young 

to thes letts than any wantt of de- esq r . Baskervile of Bayworth near 

sire to folow yow. Hagge this 20 Sunningwell in Berkshire, son of 

of January. Your honor's most the late esq r . Baskervile of that 

asurid to do yow servis. place, who was commonly stil'd 

Tho. Baskeruile.] the king of Jerusalem. Which 



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87 



fresh his mind with a melancholy walke, and with the re- 
tiredness of the place, as also with the shady box-arbours 
in the garden. 

In the latter end of this yeare (in Mar.) scurvy grass- 
drink began to be frequently drunk in the mornings as 
physick-drinke. 

All the time that A. W. could spare from his beloved 



young Baskervile, being the only 
child left by his father, was a 
beautifull handsome person, but 
most miserably debauch'd, and 
so great a spendthrift that he soon 
wasted a brave estate, being turnd 
by him into an annuity of four- 
score libs per an. to sir John 
Stonehouse of Radley near Ab- 
bington. The father was so whim- 
sical a man as to call himself by 
the said title of king of Jerusalem, 
and would ramble about all the 
country and pick up all strange 
odd things, good and bad, which 
he had written fair in two large 
folios, which he design'd to have 
printed, and for that end had his 
picture engrav'd, w ch . was to 
have been prefix'd as a frontis- 
piece, and he had agreed with 
Lichfield about the whole impres- 
sion, but dyed before it mov'd far- 
ther than the agreement. The son 
had the books, but was shy of 
shewing them. This young Bas- 
kervile died in the 33 rd . year of 
his age. He was buried in Sun- 
ningwell church, Saturday night, 
Feb. 11 th ." One of these volumes 
has found its way into the Harleian 
collection, N°. 4716, where the 
other remains, if not destroyed, is 



uncertain. The portrait of Basker- 
vile is supposed by Noble to have 
been engraved by Vertue, but by 
the execution this is hardly pro- 
bable. He is represented in an 
oval, with a slouch-hat, over a 
large flowing wig, a neck-kerchief 
hanging long and loosely, and 
having his hands clasped together; 
a singular and miserable looking 
personage. Above is his cyper, 
and, 

" Once I was alive, and had flesh 

did thrive, 
But now I am a skellitan at 70/ 

And under the print sixteen lines, 
in which he tells us that he was 
born in Aug. 1629, and was con- 
sequently sixty-nine in 1699, the 
year probably in which the en- 
graving was made. He concludes 
by saying that on the 11 th . of 
January, 1666, he received his 
title from some supernatural an- 
nouncement : 

" A ray of light I saw that day 
Enter my heart with heat and joy, 
Saying these words unto me then 
King of Jerusalem.'''' 

The rarity of this print is the 
only excuse for so much said on 
such a subject.] 



88 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 5^- 

studies of English history, antiquities, heraldry and gene- 
alogies, he spent in the most delightful facultie of musick, 
either instrumental or vocal: and if he had missed the 
weekly meetings in the house of Will. Ellis, he could not 
well enjoy himself all the week after. All or most of the 
company, when he frequented that meeting, the names of 
them are set downe under the yeare 1656. As for those 
See Ath. that came in after, and were now performers, and with 
Oxon STI wnome A. W. frequently playd, were these : (1) n Charles 

n Charles Perrot was the 2d would not communicate the titles 

son of Edward Perrot, esq; of of them to A. Wood. He died 

North Leigh near Oxford, by Eliz. on the 23 d . of April 1677, aged 45 

daughter of sir William Stone- or thereabouts, and was buried 

house of Radley, Berks, at which neare to his grandfather Robert 

place he was born. Having spent Perrot, gent, and his mother, in 

some time in his travels to learn the chancell of North Leigh 

the modern languages, he return- church. See Fasti Oxon. and 

ed an accomplished gentleman, Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 

and was author of two or more 8466. W. & H. 
political pamphlets in defence of In a MS. in the possession of 

the prerogative, to which he did the reverend Mr. John Price*, 

not set his name, and therefore sir Thomas Bodley's librarian, 

* [John Price, son of the rev. Robert Price of Llandeglu, Denbighshire, was 
born at Tuer, near Llangollen, 1 734-5 ■ matriculated of Jesus college 27 March 
1 754, aged 19 j soon after elected to a scholarship at Jesus, where he took the 
degree of B. A. Oct. 10, 1757; M. A. June 4, 1760; B. D. Jan. 15, 1768. 
In this latter year he obtained the librarianship of the Bodleian, after a 
severe contest with Mr. Cleaver of Brasennose, afterwards head of that col- 
lege and bishop of St. Asaph, who used to say that he was indebted to Mr. 
Price for his mitre, for had he obtained the Bodleian, he should have there 
continued, instead of becoming tutor in a noble family, and so placed in the 
road to advancement. In this election the votes were equal, and Mr. Price, 
being senior, was nominated by the vice-chancellor. Mr. Price held, at 
various times, excellent preferments, chiefly by the interest of his friend and 
patron the duke of Beaufort, in the rectory of Woolaston and that of Alving- 
ton in Gloucestershire, and subsequently the rich benefice of Llangattock in 
Brecon, South Wales, and the small living of Wilcot in Oxfordshire, where 
he occasionally resided. He died at his house adjoining the back gate of 
Trinity college in 18 13, and was buried at Wilcot.] 



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89 



Perot, M. A. fellow of Oriel coll. a well bred gent, and a 
person of a sweet nature. (2) Christop. Harrison, M. A. 



which contains many particulars 
relative to the parish and church 
of North Leigh, and to the 
Perrot family, are the following 
articles : 

i. Extract of the Will of the 
above mentioned Charles Perrot. 
" Also (I give and bequeath) to the 
poor of the parish of North Leigh 
&c. the sum of fifty pounds to be 
laid out in the purchase of lands 
or otherwise setled so it may be 
and remain for ever to and for the 
use of the said poor imploying the 
yearly profits thereof in binding 
forth apprentices into other pa- 
rishes children of the poorest peo- 
ple of the same parish of North 
Leigh &c." 

2. An Oration spoken in the 
Hall of Oriel college Oxon. the 
xxvth of April, A. D. 1677. by 
Mr. Hazlewood then Dean of the 
same College at the Funeral of Mr. 
Charles Perrot one of the Fellows 
of that College before all that So- 
ciety and others present, his Corps 
being then placed before them. 

In detached parts of which ora- 
tion his character is thus drawn. 

Ista generis claritas qua alios 
pra?stabat ei tantum persuasit ani- 
mumque dedit ad egregia facinora 
suscipienda. — Apud omnes, qui- 
bus notus erat, fidem adeo invio- 
latam servavit, quasi non sibi sed 
amicis se natum putarat. Gra- 



vitatem suam tam innocua fes- 
tivitate temperavit, ut neminem 
unquam, ante mortem suam, tris- 
tem effecit : etenim, dum in vivis 
ille fuit, non minus difficile erat vul- 
tum moestitia contractum, quam 
jam, cum mortuus sit, hilaritate 

exporrectum intueri. Eadem 

pietate ille vixit qua alii sancti 
moriuntur, pietate adeo incredi- 
bili, sua tamen, ut illam non mi- 
nus segre credent posteri quam 
nos possumus imitari. Cum ei 
mortuo tantum similes esse pos- 
simus, minime mirandum censeo, 
si nos ad illius exemplar jam con- 
formemus, si cum ilium mors & 
dolor nos mutos reddat. 

3. Extract of the Will of * Mr. 
Edward Perrot a Portugal Mer- 
chant, in which he leaves the sum 
of Forty Pounds to the Parish of 
North Leigh j to which Will Mr. 
Robert Perrot and Mr. Charles 
Perrot are nominated Executors. 

4. The Accompt of Mr. Robert 
Perrot of the said Legacy and in- 
crease thereof made to the Church- 
wardens Sfc. 1678. 

Among the articles here set 
downe are the following : 

t He paid towards the placing 
Martha Jones one of the daugh- 
ters of Humphry Jones clerk, 
deceased, late vicar of this church, 
apprentice to Richard Harris of 
Wootten 4 : 3 : 10 



* He died at Porto the 16th. of Octob. according to our stile, a" 1667, 
f 1684. May 20. 



90 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[1658. 



fellow of Queen's coll. a maggot-headed person °and 
humourous. He was afterwards parson of Burgh under 
Staynsmore in Cumberland, where he died in the winter 
time an. 1694. (3) Kenelm Digby, fellow of Alls. coll. 
He was afterwards LL. D r . and dying in the said coll. on 
Munday night Nov. 5. an. 1688, was buried in the chap- 
pell there. He was a violinist, and the two former violists. 

(4) "Will. Bull, Mr. of arts, bach, of phys. and fellow of 
Alls. coll. for the violin and viol. He died 15 Jul. 1661. 
aged 28 yeares, and was buried in the chappell there. 

(5) Joh. Vincent, M. A. fellow of the said coll. a violist. He 
went afterwards to the inns of court, and was a barrester. 

(6) Sylvanus Taylor, somtimes com. of Wadh. coll. after- 
wards fellow of Allsoules, and violist and songster. He 
went afterwards to Ireland, and died at Dublin in the be- 



* Paid part of the vul. toward 
the placing of Nicholas Jones son 
of the said Humphrey Jones ap- 
prentice to Mr. Charles Dawson, 
dancing master, who married the 
mother of the said Nicholas and 
for the indentre and bonds 
o : 10 : o 

In another MS. containing re- 
gisters of the estates and other 
particulars relating to the family 
of Perrott, there is an entry of the 
birth of Charles Perrott, which 
seems to contradict the account 
given of him above : viz. 

" Charles Parrott borne at A- 
bington in the county of Berks 
on Monday the tenthe of De- 
cember 1627 about seven of clocke 
at night and was christned the 
iojthe of the same monthe beinge 



Wensday at St. Elen's churche 
his godfathers were Charles Wise- 
man of Steventon esqr. and Cor- 
nelius Fairmedoe of London esqr. 
his godmother M rs . Elizabethe 
Stonhouse. 3 Caroli regis." 

From a marginal note also in 
the MS. quoted above it appears 
that Charles Perrott died in the 
50 th year of his age. W. & H. 
[See many curious particulars 
about the Perrot family in Hearne's 
MS. Collections, vol. xxxvii. and 
cvi. The MS. mentioned above 
came with several other papers 
of Mr. Price's into the hands of 
his friend and successor in the 
library Dr. Bandinel.] 

Puncta ab ipso auctore. 
Hearne. 



168^. July 28. 



1658.] LIFE OF WOOD. 91 

ginning of Nov. 1672. His elder brother, capt. Silas See in the 
Taylor, was a composer of musick, playd and sung hisj^^e 
parts : and when his occasions brought him to Oxon. he q uoted - 
would be at the musical meetings, and play and sing his 
part there. (7) Hen. Langley, M. A. and gent. com. of 
Wadh. coll. a violist and songster. He was afterwards a 
worthy knight, lived at Abbey-Foriat neare Shrewsbury, 
where he died in 1680. (8) Samuel Woodford, a commoner 
and M. A. of the said coll. a violist. He was afterwards a 
celebrated poet, beneficed in Hampshire, and prebendary 
of Winchester. (9) Franc. Parry, M. A. fellow of Corp. 
Ch. coll. a violist and songster. He was afterwards a tra- 
veller, and belonged to the excise office. (10) Christop. a violist and 
Coward, M. A. fellow of C. C. coll. He was afterwards vi iist. " 
rector of Dicheat in his native county of Somersetshire, 

P Charles 

proceeded D. of D. at Oxon. in 1694. (11) Henr. Bridge- 
man, M. A. of Queen's coll. and of kin to S 1 . Orlando 
Bridgeman. He was afterwards archdeacon of Richmond. 
He died 26 Nov. 1678, and was buried in the chap, be- 
longing to that coll. (12) Nathan Crew, M. A. fellow of 
Line. coll. a violinist and violist, but alwaies played out of 
tune, as having no good eare. He was afterwards, thro 
several preferments, bishop of Durham. (13) Matthew 
Hutton, M. A. fellow of Brasnose coll. an excellent vi- 
olist. Afterwards rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire. 
(14) Thorn. Ken q of New coll. a junior. He would be som- 
times among them, and sing his part. (15) Christop. 
Jeffryes, a junior student of Ch. Church, excellent at the 
organ and virginals or harpsichord, having been trained up 
to those instruments by his father Georg. Jeffryes, stew- 
ard to the Lord Hatton of Kirbie in Northamptonshire 

p Sic ipse auctor. Recte Charles. <i Afterwards bishop of Bath 

Hearne. and Wells. W. & H. 



92 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 5 8 - 

See Ath. and organist to K. Ch. I. at Oxon. (16) Rich. Rhodes, 
another junior student of Ch. Church, a confident West- 
monasterian, a violinist to hold between his knees. 

These did frequent the weekly meetings, and by the 
help of publick masters of musick, who were mixed with 
them, they were much improved. Narcissus Marsh, M. A. 
and fellow of Exeter coll. would come somtimes among 
them, but seldome play'd, because he had a weekly meet- 
ing in his chamber in the said coll. where masters of 
musick would come, and some of the company before 
mentioned. When he became principal of S. Alban's-hall, 
he translated the meeting thither, and there it continued 
when that meeting in Mr. Ellis's house was given over, 
and so it continued till he went into Ireland, and became 
Mr. of Trin. coll. at Dublin. He was afterwards archb. 
of Tuam in Ireland. 

After his majestie's restoration, when then the masters 
of musick were restored to their several places that they 
before had lost, or else if they had lost none, they had 
gotten then preferment, the weekly meetings at Mr. Ellis's 
house began to decay, because they were held up only by 
scholars, who wanted directors and instructors, &c. so that 
in few yeares after, the meeting in that house being totally 
layd aside, the chief meeting was at Mr. (then D r .) 
Marshe's chamber, at Exeter coll. and afterwards at S. 
Alban's-hall, as before I have told you. 

Besides the weekly meetings at Mr. Ellis's house, which 
were first on Thursday, then on Tuesday, there were meet- 
ings of the scholastical musitians every Friday night, in 
the winter time, in some colleges; as in the chamber of 
Hen. Langley, or of Samuel Woodford, in Wadham coll. 
in the chamber of Christop. Harrison in Queen's coll. in 
that of Charles Perot in Oriel, in another at New coll. &c. 
to all which some masters of musick would commonlv 



1659.] LIFE OF WOOD. 93 

retire, as Will. Flexney, Tho. Jackson, Gervas Westcote, 

&c. but these meetings were not continued above 2 or 3 

yeares, and I think they did not go beyond the yeare 1662. 

Saturday he went to Stoke-Lyne neare Bister with his I ^59- 

mother, a servant-mayd and a man, to give a visit to his f J -j^' h 

cozen Charnel Petty, esq. and other of his relations there. Protect.] 

Ap. 2. 
He went to Middleton-Cheyney in Northamptonshire A 

with his mother and other of his relations at Stoke-Lyne, 
to visit his cozen Joh. Cave and those of his family. He 
continued there two or three nights, in which time he took 
his rambles to Banbury, visited the church and antiquities 
there much broken and defaced : and thence to the an- 
tient and noble seat of Werkworth, then lately belonging 
to the Chetwoods ; of whom it had then, some yeares be- 
fore, ben bought by Philip Holman of London scrivener, 
who dying in 1669, aged 76, was buried in the church 
there. One Joh. Lewes his kinsman conducted him thi- 
ther, where wee found the eldest son and heir of the said 
Philip Holman named ----- who was lately returned 
from his travells, had changed his religion for that of 
Borne, and seemed then to be a melancholy and begotted 
convert. He was civil to us, and caused the church dore 
to be opened, where wee found several antient monuments ; 
the chiefest of which are of the Chetwoods, which A. W. 
then transcribed with the armes on them. The mannour 
house is a stately house, the antient habitation of the 
Chetwoods of Chetwood in Bucks : part of which, viz. the 
former part, was built by the Chetwoods, the rest by Philip 
Holman before mentioned. In the gallery of the said 
house are the armes, quarterings, crests and motto's of 
several of the nobility in England. r At Banbury is a very 
fair church, but of 60 coates of armes that were in the 
windowes there before the warrs began, he could then see 
r See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8518. 2. W. & H. 



94 LIFE OF WOOD. \_ l ^S9' 

but 12 or 13. The monuments there were also wofully 
defaced in the late civil warr, yet what remained he trans- 
cribed, and returned to Middleton againe. s 

Ap. 6. He returned to Stoke-Lyne with a great deale of com- 

pany (two coaches full) that went thence with him to 
Middleton. 
7- A fire hapned in Halywell in the suburb of Oxon. in 

t Mr. Ben. the house next on the east side to that which Mr. f Alex. 

Cooper 

now lives Fisher had lately built. Mr. Joh. Lamphire, t the then 
owner of it, was visiting his patients in the country, and 
lost his books, many of his goods, and some money. 
9- A. W. returned to Oxon. and brought with him a ter- 

tian-ague, which held him ten dayes, and in that time 
pluck' d downe his body much. 

May 20. At Dorchester, and thence to Warborow to the house 

of Adam Hobbes a farmer, to desire leave to see a book in 
his hands, containing matters relating to the church of 
Dorchester. He denied him the sight of it ; but Hobbes 
being acquainted with Tho. Rowney, an attorney of Oxon. 
A. W. perswaded him to leave it in his hands for u my use, 
which he did the next mercate day that he came to Oxon. 
'Twas a book in 4°, written in parchment, in the raigne, I 
think, of qu. Elizabeth, and in it he saw the larg will of 
Rich. Beauforest, dat. 13 July, 1554, and proved the 8 of 
June, 1555, whereby he gives the abbey church of Dor- 
chester, which he had bought of the king, to the towne of 
Dorchester. 

Jun. 2. A great meeting of the anabaptists at Abendon, in order 

to make a disturbance in the nation. 

July 20. His mother's house against Merton coll. was searched 

for armes by a couple of soldiers. Some other houses 

s See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8548. W. & H. 

t [See account of Lamphire, Fasti 1660.] u Sic. Hearne 



1659-] LIFE OF WOOD. 95 

were searched, and the stables of colleges for horses. This 
was done to prevent a rising of the cavaliers here, and so 
the easier to suppress the rising of S r . George Booth and 
his partie in Cheshire, and elsewhere, on the first of 
August, which was the time when they were to appeare. 

Sunday, a terrible wind hapned in the afternoon, while Jul. 31 
all people were at divine service. Two or three stones, 
and some rough-cast stuff were blown from off the tower 
of S. Martin alias Carfax : which falling on the leads of 
the church, a great alarm and out-cry was among the 
people in the church. Some cried murder, and at that 
time a trumpet or trumpets sounding neare the Cross-inne 
dore, to call the soldiers together, because of the present 
plott, they in the church cried out, that the day of judg- 
ment was at hand. Some said, the anabaptists and quakers 
were come to cut their throats, while the preacher, Mr. 
Georg Philips, perceiving their errour, was ready to burst 
with laughter in the pulpit, to see such a mistaken con- 
fusion, and several of the people that were in the galleries 
hanging at the bottom of them, falling on the heads of 
people, crowding on the floor to get out of the dores. 
This was on the very day before S r . Georg Booth and his 
party were to appeare in Cheshire. Col. Edw. Massey at 
that time was to appeare in Glocestershire, but being 
taken, he was put behind a trooper, to carry him away to 
prison. And as they were going downe a hill in the even- 
ing of this stormy day, the horse fell, and gave the colonel 
an opportunity to shove the trooper forward, and to make 
an escape into an adjoyning wood. 

In the beginning of Sept. the library of the learned Sept. 
Selden was brought into that of Bodley x . A. W. laboured 

x [As for the library of Mr. Sel- queath it to Bodley's library, but 
den, it was once (as I have been being denied the borrowing of 
informed) his intentions to be- certain MSS. from thence, be- 



96 



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several weeks with Mr. Tho. Barlow and others in sorting 
them, carrying them up stairs and placing them. In 



cause it was downright against 
the statutes and will of their re- 
spective donors, did upon distaste 
taken thereupon (as also the shar- 
ing of the founder's gold at Mag- 
dalen college as I have been told) 
bequeath it, (the Oriental books 
excepted, which he designed for 
this library) to the students of the 
Inner Temple, conditionally, that 
they, with the students of the 
Middle would build a library to 
receive them : if not, then to any 
public place according to the dis- 
cretion of his executors. But the 
said Templars not accepting it 
upon that condition, certain per- 
sons of this university, especially 
Mr. Thomas Barlow the head 
keeper, conferring with the exe- 
cutors about it, it was obtained of 
them on certain conditions. So 
that soon after, viz. an. 1659, the 
said library being sent from Lon- 
don by water, were set up in the 
remaining stowage of this new 
addition. * The shelves in the 

Bibliothecam JOHANNIS SELDENI 

nitore ingenii, candore morum pr^ecellentia doctrine 

imparilis viri 

heic repositam: 

Johannes Vaughan, Matth^eus Hale, 

ROLANDUS JUCKS ArMIGERI (QUIBUS TESTAMENT! SUI FIDEM 

MANDAVIT) IN DURATURAM TANTI VIRI MEMORIAM ET REI 

LITERARIvE BONUM AMPLISSIMjE HUIC ACADEMIC SACRATAM 

VOLUERE. 

This 

* The western end of the Bodleian library, the buildiug of which com- 
menced in 1634 and was finished in 1638. Mr. Selden's books remain there 
to this day (1 848) and it is generally known by the name of " The Selden End." 



lower part were filled with folios 
and large quartos, and divided into 
the faculties of divinity, law, physic 
and arts, and the rest of smaller 
size were put up in upper shelves 
above the stairs, and all since put 
into the common catalogue and 
printed ; but so it is, that by the 
imprudence of the then library 
keeper (Lockey) by disposing se- 
veral of the quartos, which he 
(very unequally in several re- 
spects) bound together and mixed 
with the folios below (whereas 
they should have been put above 
stairs) have suffered loss and great 
damage. But, for the favour thus 
shewed to the university by the 
executors, the members thereof 
caused this inscription following 
to be written in golden letters on 
a table, and that table to be hung 
in the middle of the window of 
this addition looking toward the 
west, performed (such as 'tis) by 
the then library keeper : 



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LIFE OF WOOD. 



97 



opening some of the books they found several pair of 
spectacles, which Mr. Selden had put in, and forgotten to 



This account is transcribed from 
our author's account of Bodley's 
library in his Hist, and Antiq. of 
the Univ. of Oxford by Gutch, 
Oxon. 1796, ii. 942.] 

The following were the conditions 
upon which the executors complied 
with the request of the university; 
the publication of which, it is ima- 
gined, will not be unacceptable to 
the reader, as they evidently shew 
the good sense and judgment of 
the compilers, and may also serve 
for a model, in future legacies of 
this sort. They are printed from 
the original MS. now in the pos- 
session of the reverend Mr. Price, 
sir Thomas Bodley's librarian. 
PROPOSALLS by the Executors 
of John Selden Esq. touch- 
ing the settling of the Bookes of 
the said John Selden heereafter 
mentioned for publique use in 
the University of Oxon. and the 
Honour and Memory of the said 
John Selden in answeare to a 
Letter formerly sent to them by 
the sayd University. 
1. That as well the Manuscripts 
in Greeke and Hebrue, and other 
Orientall tongues, and the Tal- 
mudicall and Rabbinicall bookes, 
as alsoe such other bookes of 
the said John Selden as shall 
bee sent to the said University by 
the Executors of the said John 
Selden bee for ever heerafter kepte 
togeather in one distincte pile and 
body under the name of Mr. Sel- 
den's library. 

WOOD, VOL. I. 



2. That they bee placed and 
for ever heerafter contynued to- 
geather in the new built west end 
of the publique Library, or some 
such convenient parte thereof and 
in such manner and with such 
distinction from the other parte of 
the Library and with such inscrip- 
tion upon the place where they 
shall bee soe settled as the said 
Executors or the Survivor of them 
shall directe or approve for pub- 
lique use in the said University 
and the perpetuall Memory and 
honour of the said John Selden. 

3. That the sayd Bookes be 
perpetually preserved togeather 
under the charge of the publique 
Library Keeper for the publique 
use in the said University without 
any dissipation, sale, imbezelling, 
or removeall of them or any of 
them and without any delivery or 
lone of them or any of them out 
of the said Repository to any per- 
son or upon any pretence whatso- 
ever. 

4. That the property of the said 
Bookes (subject neverthelesse to 
the use afforesaid) bee lodged and 
setled in such persons and in 
such manner and under such con- 
ditions and provisions in order to 
the perpetuateing of them to the 
end and uses above expressed as 
by the said Executors or the 
Survivors of them shall bee ad- 
judged most meete safe and con- 
venient. 

5. That the said Bookes may 
H 



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take out, and Mr. Tho. Barlow gave A. W. a pair, which 
he kept in memorie of Selden to his last day. 

Sept. 1 6. One Kinaston, a merchant of London, with a 

long beard and haire over-grown, was at the Miter-Inn, 
and faigning himself a Patriarch, and that he came to 
Oxford for a modell of the last reformation, divers royal- 
lists repaired to him, and were blest by him, viz. Joh. 
Ball, Gilb. Ironside, and Hen. Langleyy of Wadham coll. 



bee within the space of Twelve 
moneths next ensueing placed and 
chayned and a just Catalogue 
thereof made at the publique 
charges of the University and one 
parte of the said Catalogue de- 
livered by the publique Act of 
Convocation to the said Execu- 
tors or the survivors of them. 

6. That the said Executors or 
such others as they shall nominate 
if they shall thinke fitt to nominate 
any or in default of such Ap- 
poyntement the Visitors appoynted 
for the publique Library shall 
once every yeare have the search 
inspection and examination of the 
said Bookes to the end that any 
distraction, displaceing, losse or 
injury of the said Bookes may bee 
prevented discovered and reform- 
ed and that discovery- bee made 
thereof to the said Executors or 
the Survivor of them or their as- 
signes, and that if any of the said 
bookes bee lost or made useless 
the same bee supplyed againe in 
the same place and roome at the 
charge of the said University, un- 
der the same use, title and security 
as if they had been originally sent 
by the said Executors. 



7. That the publique Library 
Keeper or some other persons of 
fidelity to the good likeing of the 
said Executors bee nominated by 
the said University within two 
Moneths to take the present care, 
charge, and custody of the said 
Bookes and of the transportation 
of them to the said University at 
the publique charge of the Univer- 
sity and that they may bee placed 
in the said West end of the Li- 
brary in safe custody till they shall 
bee digested and settled in the place 
soe appoynted as is above directed. 

8. That if in the Pile of Bookes 
nowe to bee sent, there shall ap- 
peare to bee Duplicats of Bookes 
of the same kinde and edition, that 
then one of every such duplicats be 
delivered backe to the said Execu- 
tors for their o wne use an d disposall. 

9. That before any delivery of 
any of the said Bookes the Uni- 
versity doe by publique Acte of 
the Convocation and under their 
Comon Seale declare their As- 
sent to the proposalls above ex- 



Matthew Hales. John Vaughan. 
Row. Jewkes. W. & H. 

y All of. Diar. Hearne. 



1659-] life OF WOOD. 99 

Bernard Rawlins a glasier was also there, and crav'd his 
blessing on his knees, which he obtained. Joh. Harmar z 
also the Greek professor of the university appeared very 
formally, and made a Greek harangue before him. Where- 
upon some of the company, who knew the design to be 
waggish, fell a laughing, and betray' d the matter. It was 
a piece of waggery to impose upon the royallists, and such 
that had a mind to be blest by a patriarch instead of an 
archbishop or bishop, and it made great sport for a time, 
and those that were blest were ashamed of it, they being 
more than I have set downe. Mr. Will. LLoyd, then 
living in Wadham coll. in the quality of a tutor to Will. 
Buckhouse of Swallowfield in Berks, was the author of 
this piece of waggery, as he himself used to make his 
braggs. And because the deane of Ch. Church D r . Owen, 
and some of the canons of that house and other Presby- 
terian doctors, resorted to him, or he to them, for to draw 
up and give him a modell, they were so much incensed, 
when they found the matter a cheat, that LLoyd was 
forced to abscond for the present, or, as he used to say, 
run away. This Mr. LLoyd was afterwards successively 
bishop of S. Asaph, Lichfield and Coventry. 

Georg Wharton the astronomer did take notice of this 
matter in his almanac an. 1661, and calls the patriarch 
Jeremias, but puts the memoire under the XI of Sept. 
which is false. a 

Michaelm. day the eldest brother then living of A. W. Sept. 29. 
named Robert Wood, was married to Mary Drope, dau. of 
b Tho. Drope, bach, of div. * It must be now knowne, 

z His translation of some par- b ^ 0> j) r0 p e b. Div. lately rec- 

ticular passages in Hudibras see tor of Ardley neare Bister in Ox- 

correctly given in Biograph. Brit. f or dsh. Sf vicar of Comnore neare 

vol. ii. pag. 1 081. W. & H. to Abendon in Berks. It must be 

a In the margin of the Diary is & ere n oUd, that. Diar. Hearne. 

added by the author's own hand, * [For the pedigree, see the fol- 

A. W. was askd to go, but he lowing page.] 
would not. Hearne, 

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1659.] LIFE of wood. 101 

that when his father died, he did by his will leave all his 
estate, except that at Tetsworth, to the longest liver of his 
children, and therefore Rob. Wood being not in a capacity 
to settle a joyntare on his wife, having but the third part 
of the said estate which laid in Oxon. (because 3 of his 
sons were now living) A. W. did therefore, upon Robert's 
request, resigne the interest he had in the said estate, as 
surviver or longest liver if it should so happen ; and this 
he did without any consideration given to him, which no 
body else would have done. Afterwards he did the like 
to his brother Christopher, upon his request : which in 
after times did in a manner prove A. Wood's ruin ; for he 
could hardly get his own share from the children of his 
brethren. 

A. W. began to peruse the registers or leiger books of Oct. 24. 
S. Frideswide's priory, Osney and Einsham abbeys, which 
are kept in Ch. Church treasury. They were taken out 
thence by Mr. Ralph Button, canon of the said house, and 
reposed in his lodgings in the cloyster there. To which 
lodgings A. W. did recurr dayly, till he had satisfied him- 
self with them. It was an exceeding pleasure to him, 
and he took very great delight to be poring on such books, 
and collecting matters from them. c 

In this month Jam. Quin, M. A. and one of the senior Oct. 
students of Ch. Church, a Middlesex man borne, but son 
of Walt. Quin of Dublin, died in a crazed condition in his 
bedmaker's house in Penyfarthing- street, and was buried 
in the cathedral of Ch.Ch. A. W. had some acquaintance 
with him, and hath several times heard him sing with 
great admiration. His voice was a bass, and he had a 
great command of it. Twas very strong and exceeding 
trouling, but he wanted skill, and could scarce sing in 

c See Wood's MSS. in mus. 8516. 8517. 8526. 8563. f. 6. f. 125. 
Ashm. No. 8472. 8491. 8513. f. 135. f. 155. 8589. W. &H. 



102 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 59- 

consort. He had been turned out of his student's place 
by the visitors; but being well acquainted with some 
great men of those times, that loved musick, they intro- 
duced him into the company of Oliver Cromwel the pro- 
tector, who loved a good voice, and instrumentall musick 
well. He heard him sing with very great delight, liquor'd 
him with sack, and in conclusion said : " Mr. Quin, you 
have done very well, what shall I doe for you ?" To which 
Quin made answer with great complements, of which he had 
command with a great grace, that " your Highness would 
be pleased to restore him to his student's place;" which 
he did accordingly, and so kept it to his dying day. 
Nov. 26. His acquaintance d Hen. Stubbe of Ch. Church sitting 

in the upper chamber of his friend Will. Sprigg, (fellow 
of Line, coll.) opposite the back-gate of the Miter-inn, a 
soldier standing there and discharging his gun, the bullet 
came thro' Stubbe' s haire, and miss'd him narrowly. 
Dec. In the latter end of this month, being Christmas-time, 

A. W. was at Cuxham in the house of Edm. Gregory. 
Mr. Bull, Hawley, &c. were there also. 
Feb. In the beginning of Febr. Hen. Stubbe before men- 

et Fasti ti° n 'd was publickly complayn'd of in the parliam. house, 
Oxon. f or palliating in print the wickedness and roguery of S r . 

Hen. Vane. 
Feb. 13. Munday at night was great rejoycing in Oxon. for the 

news, that then was brought, that there should suddenly 
be a free-parliament. The bells rang, and bonfires were 
made, and some rumps and tayles of sheep were flung into 
a bonfier at Qu. coll. gate. D r . Joh. Palmer, a great 
rumper, warden of Allsouls coll. in the place of D r . 

d For an account of the various Note D. 
and active life of this heteroclite He escaped the bullet, and af- 

genius see Athene Oxon. Bio- terwards the halter. At last— he 

graph. Brit. vol. 7. suppl. p. 165. was drowned. W. & H. 



1 659.] LIFE OF WOOD. 103 

Sheldon, being then very ill and weak, had a rump 
throwne up from the street at his windowes. He had been 
one of the rump parliament, and a great favourite of 
Oliver. 

At this time A. W. being resolved to set himself to the 
study of antiquities, and do somthing in them in the 
house where he was borne, he set up a chimney in the 
upper roome looking eastward ; and in the next room 
joyning he put out a window next to the street, and made 
it a study, in which he composed for the most part those 
things, which he afterwards published. 

His thoughts were strangly distracted, and his mind 
overwhelmed with melancholy, by reading a book entit. 
A true and faithfull Narration of what passed for many 
yeares between Dr. Joh. Dee and some Spirits, &c. which 
was published in fol. by Dr. Meric Casaubon about the 
beginning of this yeare. 

The pictures of prophets, apostles, saints, &c. that had 
been painted on the back-side of the stalls in Merton coll. 
choire, in various and antique shapes, about the beginning 
of the raigne of K. Hen. 7. were daubed over with paint, 
by the command of the usurpers, about 1651, to the sor- 
row of curious men that were admirers of antient painting. 
But that daubing wearing away in two or three yeares, 
they were all painted over in oyl-colours this yeare (1659) 
and the antient pictures e quite obliterated. While the 
workmen were performing this work, several of the brass- 
plates, with inscriptions, on grave- stones were most sacri- 
legiously tome up, and taken away, either by some of the 
paynters, or other workmen then working in the chappel. 
A. W. complayn'd of these things to the fellowes, and de- 
sired them to look after the offenders; but, with shame 

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be it spoken, not one of them did resent the matter, or 
enquire after the sacrilegists, such were their degenerated 
and poore spirits. However A. W. had before this time 
transcribed them, which were afterwards printed. See 
Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Kb. 2. p. 91. 
1660. Fulk Grevill, being at or neare Banbury, of the antient 

12 ar * " and gentile familie of the Grevills of Warwickshire, was 

Mar. 30. b 

condemned at Oxford assize, for robbing on the high way, 
and killing, as 'twas said, a man. 

Apr. 1. A. W. his two brothers and mother sealed a lease of 

21 yeares to Joh. Willgoose, taylor, of a tenement in S. 
Martin's parish, in the Bocherew. It is an appertenent 
of the Flower de Luce. 

Apr. 10. He was with D r . Conant, rector of Exeter coll. and 
vice-chancellour of the universitie, to obtaine his leave to 
see the universitie registers and writings, in order to the 
drawing up a discourse of the antiquitie of the universitie. 
He looked upon him as a yong man, and not able to doe 
such a matter : and A. W. took him to be a man, that did 
not understand the nature of such a question, being either 
surpriz'd with the suddainess or novelty of it, or that he 
did not understand that studie, as really he did not. So 
nothing being done, they parted. 

May 10. May 10 (Thursday) gave to D r . Hen. Savage, the master 

of Balliol coll. the collection which he made of the lives of 
all the worthies of that coll. from Jo. Leland, Bale and 
Pits. Also the opinions of several authors concerning 
the founder and foundation of that coll. and certaine ob- 
servations of the name of Balliol, which he had collected 
from several histories and chronicles. These things D r . 
Hen. Savage made use of, when he was compiling his 
book called, Balliofergus : or a Commentarie upon the 
Foundation, Founders and Affaires of Balliol Coll. Oxon. 
1668. qu. 



l66o.] LIFE OF WOOD. 105 

He perused the MSS. in the archives of Corp. Chr. May 14. 
coll. and found several matters there material for his use. &c " 

There was a most excellent musick-lecture of the prac- May 24. 
tick part in the public school of that facultie, where A. W. 
performed a part on the violin. There were also voices, 
and by the direction of Edw. Low, organist of Ch. Church, 
who was then the deputy professor for D r . Wilson, all 
things were carried very well, and gave great content to the 
most numerous auditory. This meeting was to congratulate 
his majesties safe arrival to his kingdomes. The school 
was exceeding full, and the gallery at the end of the school 
was full of the female sex. After all was concluded, Mr. 
Low and some of the performers, besides others that did 
not performe, retired to the Crowne taverne, where they 
dranke a health to the king, the two dukes, Monke, &c. 
Of the number of performers, that were there present, 
were Sylv. Taylour of Alls. coll. Chr. Harrison of -Queen's 
coll. Franc. Parry of C. C. coll. A. Wood, &c. besides 
some masters of musick. There were also with them Will. 
Levinz of S. John's coll. Thorn. Gourney and Jack Glen- 
dall of Brasnose, (the last of which Mr. Low took with 
him to make the company sport, he being a witty and 
boon companion,) Joh. Hill, fellow of Alls. coll. Esay 
Ward of Ch. Ch. Hen. Flower of Wadham coll. &c. 
These were not performers, only the last. There were 
others, but their names I have forgot. 

The day of restoration of K. Ch. 2. observed in all or 29. 
most places in England, particularly at Oxon. which did 
exceed any place of it's bigness. Many from all parts 
nocked to London to see his entrie, but A. W. was not 
there, but at Oxon. where the jollity of the day continued 
till next morning. The world of England was perfectly 
mad. They were freed from the chaines of darkness and 
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brought upon them ; yet some of them seeing then what 
mischief they had done, tack'd about to participate of the 
universal joy, and at length closed with the royal partie. 

Jun. 8. A w began to peruse the MSS. in Ball. coll. libr. and 

afterwards at leisure times he perused the MSS. in other 
college libraries. f 
l8 « The uncle by the mother's side of A. W. named Har- 

court Pettie, Mr. of A. and sometimes of (xloc. hall, s died 
at Bister in Oxfordshire, after he had spent a fair estate 
left to him by his father Bob. Pettie, gent, which estate 
was the mannour of Wiveold or Wyfald between Henley 
and Beading, and a larg farme at Cotsford neare Bister 
before mentioned. He was buried in Bister church. 

June. i n the latter end of June the antique marbles, which 

the great Selden had left to the university, were set up in 
the wall, h which parts the area lying before the convoca- 
tion-house dore and canditch. But when the wall was 
puFd downe, to make room for the theater, the marbles 
were laid aside for the present. Afterwards when the 
theater was built, they were set up on the wall that en- 
compasses it. Each of them hath the letter S, engraven 
or painted, to distinguish them from Howard's, which 
have an H. on them. 

Jul. 18. ]X Edw. Beynolds, late deane of Ch. Ch. was elected 

warden of Merton coll. by vertue of the king's letters sent 
thereunto, dat. Jul. 7. 
19- At Meysey-Hampton in Glocestershire to visit his kins- 

man Hen. Jackson, bach, of div. and rector of that towne. 

f See Wood's MSS. in mus. clensing and polishing y e white 

Ashm. 8490. W. & H. Greeke Marble Antiquities given 

£ [He was matriculated of Cor- by Mr. Selden : and for setting 

pus Oct. 30. 1607, set. 16, with them up in y e wall over against 

his brother Francis Pettie set. 14. y e Divinity schoole goeing towards 

Reg. Matric. P.] the convocation house, 09. 06. 06. 

h [Item to Mr. Jackson for Univ. Accounts, 1660, 1.] 



i66o.] LIFE OF WOOD. 107 

He heard from him many stories of his contemporaries in 
Corp. Ch. coll. 

At Fairford neare Meysey-Hampton, where Mr. Will. ? °- 
Oldsworth, the impropriator, did with great curtesie shew 
him the beautiful church there, and the most curious 
paynted windows, set up in the raigne of K. Hen. 7. The 
said church S r . Edmund Thame, Kt. (who died 1534 ^ did 
finish, having been begun by his father Joh. Thame, esq;, 
who died an. 1500. It may compare with any country 
church in England for it's admirable structure. It is built 
cathedral wise, and hath a stately tower standing in the 
midst of it, adorned with pinacles, and sculptures of men's 
faces and armes. The church is also adorned with pinacles, 
and hath a fair roof: and in it is an organ loft, where 
hath been a tunable set of organs. The windows consist 
of several scripture stories, verie well painted considering 
the time when done: and the excellency of them is described 
in a copie of verses in a book, called University Poems. J 

D r . Joh. Wallis, the keeper of the universitie registers, 5 o. 
muniments, writings, k of the said universitie, did put into 
the hands of A. Wood the keys of the school-tower, and 
the key of the room where the said registers &c. are 
reposed, to the end that he might advance his esurient 
genie in antiquities, especially in those of the said univer- 
sitie. This was done at the request of D r . Ralph Bathurst, 
and on purpose to promote his generous designe. Here 
he layd the foundation of that book, which was 14 yeares 
after published, viz. Hist. etAntiq. Univ. Oxon. He was so 
exceedingly delighted with the place and the choice records 
therein, and did take so much paynes for carrying on the 
work, least the keys should be taken away from him, that 

1 See the lid. vol. of Leland's by Abraham Wright, pr. Lond. 
Itin. p. 18. Hearne. 1656. 8°. pp. 81, 84.] 

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108 LIFE OF WOOD. [1660. 

a great alteration was made in him. About 2 months 
after his entrance into the said tower, his acquaintance 
took notice of the falling away of his cheeks, the chang of 
the redness in them to white, &c. Yet he was very cheer- 
ful], 1 contended and healthfull, and nothing troubled him 
more than the intermission of his labours by eating, drink- 
ing, sleeping, and somtimes by company which he could 
not avoid. Afterwards Dr. Wallis seeing his diligence, he 
told him, that he might carry home with him such books 
and writings that he wanted, which he did. 

Oct. 4. He was with D r . Savage of Balliol coll. and he told him, 

that he should peruse his collection which he had made of 
the said coll. within a quarter of an yeare after, when then 
he should have finished m them. 
8. Joh. Glendall, Mr. of arts and fellow of Brasn. coll. 

died, and was buried at the upper end of S. Marie's chan- 
cell in Oxon. He was a minister's son of Cheshire, had 
been the witty Terrmfilms of the universitie in 1655, at 
which time the acts were kept in S. Marie's church. His 
company was often desired by ingenious men, and there- 
fore thrown out at a reckoning. He was a great mimick, 
and acted well in several playes, which the scholars before 
acted by stealth, either in the stone house behind and 
southward from Pembroke coll. or in Kettle hall, or at 
Halywell mill, or in the refectory at Glocester hall. A.W. 
was well acquainted with him, and delighted in his company. 

Feb. 1 1. Charnell Pettie, esq ;. somtimes high sheriff of Oxfordsh. 

and kinsman to A, W. died at Stoke-Lyne near Bister in 
the house of his grandson Ralph Holt, esq;. He was 
buried in the church there. 
14. D r . E. Reynolds n resigned his wardenship of Merton 

coll. having been lately promoted to the see of Norwich. 

^.contented. Hearne. n See the Biograph. Brit. Art. 

m Sic. Hearne. South, p. 3764. D. W. & H. 



i66o.] LIFE OF WOOD. 109 

The fellowes of Merton coll. proceeded to the election Mar. 5. 
of a new warden, according to a citation that had before 
been stuck up ; but they supposing, not without good 
ground, that D r . Tho. Jones, one of their society, would 
act foul play in the election, (having been encouraged so 
to doe by D r . Tho. Barlow, provost of Queen's coll. viz. 
that he should name D r . Thorn. Clayton a stranger, and 
so make a devolution) the fellowes proposed to Mr. Alex. 
Fisher the subwarden, that they might exclude him from 
voting for that time, and assigne another fellow in his 
place, according as the statutes of the college enabled him 
in that point. But Mr. Fisher being of a timorous spirit, 
and looking upon it as an innovation, denied their request, 
so that D r . Jones remaining one of the 7 electors, Mr. 
Joseph Harvey and Mr. Nath. Sterry, two of the said 
seaven, did desert them out of discontent, and the two 
next fellowes were called up into their places. So that 
the said 7 fellowes going to election in the public hall, all 
the said 7 seniors, except Jones, did unanimously name 
three persons according to statute, viz. S r . Rich. Browne, 
somtimes fellow, now one of the clerks of the king's privie 
councill, Mr. A. Fisher, and D r . Rich. Lydall a physitian, 
somtimes fellow; but Jones named ° S r . Rich. Browne, 
D r . Tho. Clayton, the king's professor of physick in the 
university, somtimes fellow of Pembr. coll. and D r . Priaulx, 
somtimes fellow of Merton. This being done, and the 
election devolved to Dr. Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury, 
who is the visitor or patron of the coll. Clayton and Jones 
immediately went to London, to act in their business, and 
by their friend's endeavours to get the said archb. to con- 
tinue Clayton. D r . Barlow by these his underhand and 
false doings gained the ill will of the society of Merton 

See Aubrey's Antiq. of Surrey, vol. 4. p. 117. 137. W. & H. 



13 Car. II 
Mar. 26. 



110 LIFE OF WOOD. [l6~6l. 

coll. who stuck not [to] say, and that with concernment, 
that he was a most false, bnsie and pragmatical person. 
Mar. 18. j)r. Wallis sent for A. W. to com to him, then in the 
muniment-room in the school tower. He desir'd him, to 
give his assisting hand to the drawing up of some things 
that he was then about, against his going to London, to 
prosecute the business then in being against the citizens 
of Oxon. A. W. was there five dayes in assisting D r . 
Wallis, and wrot about 7 or 8 sheets concerning the 
brewers, inholders, bakers, alehouses, taverns, maultsters, 
&c. viz. of the incorporating them, and of other matters 
concerning them. The universitie gave content to M r . 
Wood for his labour. 
1 66 1. D r . Clayton obtained his instruments in parchment 
from archb. Juxon, to be warden of Merton coll. This 
was done by the perpetual solicitations of S r . Ch. Cotterell, 
which was troublesome to the archbishop, even so much, 
that he was in a manner forest to it for quietness sake. 
The next day S r . Charles procured his brother in law D r . 
Clayton to have the honour of knighthood confer'd upon 
him. 
3°- S r . Tho. Clayton coming to Oxon. in a stage-coach, 

some of his neighbours of S. Aldate's parish went on hors- 
back to meet him, as - - - Kirby clerk of the parish, 
Tho. Haselwood his barber, -------his shoemaker, 

Turner the cook of Pembroke coll. Will. Collier the butler 
of the same coll. - - - Wilcocks a barber living in S. 
Michael's parish, Anth. Haselwood a book-seller of S. 
Marie's parish, and other rabble, besides 4 or 5 scholars 
of his kindred. These I say meeting him about Shotover, 
S r . Thomas, either ashamed of their company, or for some 
other reason best knowne to himself, desired them to 
disperse, and not to accompany him by his coach-side, 
which they did accordingly, and afterwards came scatter- 



1 66 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. Ill 

edly into Oxon. a quarter of an hour before the coach 
came in. 

Sunday, there was a sacrament and ordination of minis- 31. 
ters made in the cath. ch. of Ch. Ch. by D r . Rob. Skinner, 
bishop of Oxon. Savil Bradley, M. A. fellow of New coll. Savil Brad- 
(and afterwards fellow of that of Magd.) was one of 
the persons, that was to have holy orders confer' d on him; 
but he having been used to eat breakfasts, and drink 
morning draughts, being not able to hold out with fasting, 
was troubled so much with wind in his stomach, that 
he fell in a sowne, and disturbed for a time the ceremony. 
At length some cordial being procured, it set him up 
againe ; yet he could hardly keep himself from a second 
sowning. 

Further also, D r . Barton Holyday, archdeacon of Oxon. 
being there as an assistant to the bishop and to give the 
sacrament, it so hapned just before he was to give it, the 
canopy over the communion table (which had been put up 
there, when the choire was wainscoted about 1633) fell 
downe upon the vessells, and spilt the wine, and tumbled 
the bread about. This was a great disturbance to the 
ceremony, and many wondred at it. Afterwards when all 
things were put in order, D r . Holyday took the bole of 
wine in his hand, and going downe the steps to administer, 
it fell downe, and hurt his face. So D r . Thorn. Lamplugh 
of Qvl. coll. who was there, was faine to omciat in his 
place. All these accidents hapning together, did cause much 
discourse in the universitie and city ; and the phanaticks 
being ready to catch at any thing, that seemed evill, made 
a foule story of it, as if it had been a judgment that had 
befallen the loyal clergy. 

Munday in the morn. S r . Tho. Clayton sent his man to Apr. 1. 
the bible-clerks of Merton coll. to tell them, that P their 
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112 LIFE OF WOOD. [1661. 

master would speak with them : whereupon the clerks 
immediately went to Mr. Fisher the sub -warden, and asked 
him, what they had best to doe, whether to go to him, or 
not ? He told them, he would not bid them goe, or [not] 
goe. So they went to S r . Thomas, who told them, that 
they were to returne to their coll. and warne all the fel- 
lowes thereof, to meet him in the public hall of Merton 
coll. between 9 and 10 of the clock that morning. Ac- 
cordingly they returned and did their errand : whereupon 
when it drew towards nine of the clock, the fellowes, com- 
manded the butler, to go out of the buttery, and to deliver 
up the key to them. Which being done, the juniors who 
were at breakfast in [the] hall were put out, and the dores 
thereof were barred up within side. Afterwards they went 
into the buttery, bolted the dore thereof within, and then 
they conveyed themselves thro the cellar dore next to the 
treasury- vault, locked it, and one of them put the key into 
his pocket. The fellowes by this time expecting the com- 
ming of S r . Tho. Clayton, they retired to the chamber of 
Mr. Rob. Cripps, which is over the common gate, to the 
end that they might see towards Corpus Christi coll. when 
S r . Thomas came. The bachelaur fellows also retired to 
the chamber of Georg Roberts, one of their number, over 
that of Mr. Cripps, for the same purpose. 

About 10 of the clock in the morning came S r . Tho. 
Clayton, with the vice-chancellour and his beadles, D r . 
R. Skinner, bishop of Oxon. D r . Mich. Woodward warden 
of New college, D r . Tho. Yates principal of Brasnose coll. 
D'. Walt. Blanford warden of Wadham coll. D<\ Jo. Fell 
deane of Ch. Church, D r . Rich. Allestrie and D r . Jo. Dol- 
ben canons, Mr. Joh. Houghton sen. fellow of Brasn. coll. 
and many others. All which (some of whome were of the 
number of visitors or commissioners, appointed by the 
king to visit the universitie an. 1660.) met the said D r . 



1 66 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 113 

Clayton in the lodgings of D r . Yate at Brasnose, and came 
thence by Oriel coll. to Merton. 

At their appearance neare Corp. Chr. coll. gate, the 
fellowes and bachelaurs came downe from the aforesaid 
chambers, and ranked themselves in the gatehouse next 
to the street. The fellowes names were these, viz. Bog. 
Brent, Edm. Dickenson, Joseph Harvey, Pet. Nicolls, 
Bob. Cripps, Nath. Sterry, Hen. Hurst and Bob. White- 
hall. The bachelaur fellowes were these, viz. Georg. Bo- 
berts, Edw. Jones, Bich. Franklin, Jam. Workman, Bob. 
Huntingdon, Edw. Turnerand, Joh. Powell. All these 
had not long stood in the gatehouse, but S r . Tho. Clayton 
and his company came in at the wicket (for the common 
gates were not set open) and going straight forward to- 
wards the hall (he putting off his hat to the fellowes as he 
passed by) D r . Edm. Dickenson, one of the fellowes, went 
after him, pluckt him by the sleeve, and said, ' S r . Thomas, 
the gatehouse is the usual place of reception/ When he 
heard this, he beckned to the vicechancellour and the 
bishop, and told them ' they were to be received at the 
gate/ Upon this they returned back, and all stood in 
the gatehouse, and when they were all placed, S r . Thomas 
asked, where Mr. Fisher the subwarden was ? Mr. Brent, 
the senior fellow, answered : ' S r . Mr. subwarden keeps * * He made 

,.,, -...,. , p-i-t i choice of 

his chamber, and is in his usual course oi physick, so that this time 
he hath appointed me at this time his deputy/ Then S r . ^^ ly 
Thomas replyed, that c he came for admission and posses- this en - 

r J ' r counter, 

sion of the wardenship of Merton coll/ Mr. Brent there- because his 
upon asked him, ( where was his instrument or authority spirit could 
for it?' Then S r . Thomas calling his man, produced two not under - 
black boxes, and in them two instruments, both with the 
archbishop's seale to them, and putting them into the 
hands of Mr. John Holloway, a covetuous civilian and pub- 
lic notary, (father to Bich. Holloway, a counsellour, and 

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114 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 

afterwards in the time of K. Jam. 2. a judge) lie read them 
both uncover' d with a loud voice before the company, and 
many others, from other colleges, that by this time were 
gathered together, to see the effect of the matter, being 
all exceeding wrath against the unreasonable proceedings 
q against Clayton, by snatching the bread out of other 
folkes mouthes. 

After the instruments were read, Mr. Brent desired 
them, before they went any farther, to read a paper, 
which he had in his hand, containing a protestation in the 
name of all the fellowes, under a public notarie's hand, 
against the admission of S r . Tho. Clayton to the warden- 
ship of Merton coll. 

After Mr. Brent had read the paper, Mr. Holloway 
asked him, ' where was their inhibition ?' (meaning an in- 
hibition from some court, to stop S r . Thomas's proceed- 
ings) at which Mr. Brent made a stop, and looking wistly 
upon the fellowes, they all replyed, ' they need no inhibi- 
tion, till they found grievance, and that the public nota- 
ries hand was sufficient for that time/ Then replyed 
Holloway, ' your protestation is invalid and worth nothing, 
and therefore they would proceed/ Then Holloway, ac- 
cording to the forme, required of them admission primo, 
secundo, tertio : which the fellowes did all coragiously 
denie, and so immediately withdrew themselves, and went 
to their chambers. 

After this S r . Thomas asked, ' where the clerks were ?* 
The clerks thereupon appeared. He bad them call D r . 
Tho. Jones. D r . Jones was thereupon called, and came 
forthwith to him in the gatehouse. After some whisper- 
ing passed between them, they drew down to the warden's 
lodgings, and finding the dores fast shut, Holloway read 

1 F. of. Hearne. 



l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 115 

the instruments againe bareheaded at the dore or gate 
leading into the said lodgings. "Which being done, S r . 
Thomas asked D r . Jones, ' where the keys of the lodgings 
were?' he said, 'the subwarden had them/ Then S r . 
Thomas desired Samuel Clerk, the superior beadle of law, 
to go to the sub war den, and demand of him the keys. 
Mr. Clerk thereupon asked him, ( whether he should goe 
in the vicechancellour's name, or in his name?' S r . Tho. 
replyed, 'in the archbishop's and king's commissioners 
names.' Clerk thereupon went, and soon after brought 
this answer, that ' there were two keyes of the warden's 
lodgings, one that belonged to the warden, which he (the 
subwarden) had, the other to the senior deane, which D r . 
Jones had lately, but when he went up to London they 
took it from him, which is now layd up in the exchequer. 
As for the key which he hath, he saith, he will not deliver 
it up but to the warden when he is admitted.' 

After S r . Thomas had received this answer, he sent for 
Mr. Brent the deputy sub-warden, and then Holloway 
asked him againe primo, secundo, tertio, for possession, 
but Mr. Brent denied it. Then Holloway bid S r . Thomas 
lay his hand upon the latch of the dore, leading into the 
warden's lodgings, which he did. Afterwards D r . Jones 
whisper'd S r . Thomas in the eare, and then they went to 
the coll. chappel. In the way D r . Dickenson, who had 
more than once protested against what had been done at 
the warden's dore, drew up to S r . Thomas, and told him, 
that ' what he and other fellowes had done at that time, 
was not in contempt of him or his person, but to save 
their oaths and not break the statutes, &c.' but his words 
were heard with scorne by S r . Thomas, and so Dickenson 
left him. 

S r . Thomas being entred with all his company (except 
Fell, Dolbin and Allestrie, who ran home to prayers as 

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116 LIFE OF WOOD. [ I 66 I . 

soon as the instruments were read at the gate) into the 
chappell thro the south dore, the said instruments were 
read againe neare the warden's seat. Which being done, 
Jones took S r . Thomas by the hand, and lifted him up 
into the warden's seat, and said, that he as one of the 
senior fellows, did install him, or give him possession as 
or words to warden. Afterwards rising from his seat, Jones took him 
' by the hand, and repeated the induction or admission, as 
Holloway read it verbatim to him. After this was done, 
they all went out of the chappell the same way as they 
came in, and so retired to their respective homes. 

The key of the chappell they got thus. Robert Han- 
ham, under-butler and grome of Merton coll. having been 
employed by the society, to carry letters to London to 
hinder S r . Thomas from comming in warden of Merton 
college, did, that night on which S r . Thomas came from 
London, go to his house in S. Aldate's parish, opposite to 
the Bull inn, and humbly desired of him forgiveness for 
what he had done ; which S r . Thomas easily granted : 
Hanham laid downe before him the key of the college 
stable : whereupon D r . Jones, who was then there con- 
sulting with S r . Thomas what was to be done on Munday 
morn, following, when he was to crave admission, took it 
up, and told S r . Thomas privately, that ' that key would 
open the chappel dore, in case he should be denied en- 
trance therein/ Whereupon D r . Jones kept it, and made 
use of it when the warden S r . Thomas went to take pos- 
session of his place, as before 'tis told you. 

Afterwards the fellows used all the endeavours they 
could to hinder his admission and comming in among 
them, but all, it seems, was in vaine. The next Munday 
following, S r . Thomas sent word to the college, that he 
would come in by force. Whereupon the fellows meet- 
ing together, caused all the college gates to be shut both 



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forward and backward, and so they kept them a fortnight 
or 3 weeks, and caused some of the bachelaurs to ' keep 
possession of the warden's lodgings. At len[g]th the 
appeale of the fellowes being stopt, and r that no justice 
could be done for them, nor have right nor law for their 
money, they concluded, by the continual intercessions of 
timorous Fisher, to admit him. 

Friday, S r . Thomas, with the vicechancellour, some of May 3. 
the king's commissioners, and certaine heads of colleges, 
came a little before 10 of the clock in the morning, and the 
college gates being set wide open, and the fellowes in the 
gate-house, Mr. Fisher the subwarden did there formally, 
according to the manner and statutes, admit him : which 
being done they all went to the warden's lodgings, and 
gave him possession : which being done also, they went 
up into the dining rome, and there had a short banquet at 
the college charg. Which being all done by 3 quarters 
past ten, the fellowes went to the let any. 

After S r . Thomas was admitted at the publick gate, he 
spake a speech according to the custome : the effect of 
which is registred. But whatsoever was acted in this 
matter, which is at larg here set downe, is not, nor would 
he suffer any thing of it to be, registred ; which is the 
reason that it is here committed to memory by A. W. who 
was present s throut all the transactions of the said affaire, 
and wrot all the particulars downe, immediatly after they 
were acted. 

While these things were in doing, all the university and 
city were much concerned at them, as several people els- 
where were. All seniors, that had known what Tho. 
Clayton had been, did look upon him, as the most impu- 
dent fellow in nature, to adventure upon such a place, 
r Sic. Hearne. s Sic. Hearne. 



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(the wardenship of Merton coll.) that had been held by 
eminent persons. They knew him well to have been a most 
impndent and rnde fellow. They knew him to have been 
the very lol-poop of the university, the common subject 
of every lampoon that was made in the said university, 
and a fellow of little or no religion, only for forme-sake. 
They knew also, that he had been a most lascivious per- 
son, a great haunter of women's company and a common 
fornicator. Also, that he had sided with the times after 
the grand rebellion broke out in 1642, by taking the cove- 
nant, submitting to the visitors in 1648, by taking the 
engagement, and afterwards the oaths to be true and 
faithful to prince Oliver and prince Richard, otherwise he 
could never have kept his professorship of physick in the 
universitie, as he did, from 1647 to his majestie's (K. 
Ch. 2) restoration and after. In fine, all people were 
strangly surprised and amased, to behold such unworthy 
things done after his majestie's restoration, when then 
they thought that nothing but justice should have taken 
place, and royallists prefer'd. But as I have told you 
before, D r . Juxon, arcb. of Canterbury, being overpres'd 
by S r . Ch. Cotterel, and weary of his solicitations in be- 
half of Clayton, he sealed his instruments, without any 
more adoe, for quietness sake, he himself being a very 
quiet man, tho he knew well what Clayton had been. The 
fellows of Merton coll. did usually say, in the hearing of 
A. W. that as the college was dissolved in the time of the 
grand rebellion, so 'twas no matter to them, if it was dis- 
solved againe, rather than Tom Clayton should be warden 
thereof. 

Now let's proceed. All these things being done, I think 
it fit at this time, that wee should take into consideration 
the author of all this mischief, (Tho. Jones) and then what 



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mischief befell the college, in having a stranger so unrea- 
sonably thrust upon them. 

D r . Tho. Jones therefore being thought the fittest in- 
strument for Clayton to compass his designes, and espe- 
cially for this reason, that he was ambitious, discontented, 
covetous and destitute of preferment, told him, that if he 
would dissent from the fellows, and name him with the 
rest to be warden, he would endeavour by all meanes ima- 
ginable to requite him for it, either by gratuity, prefer- 
ment or other wayes. This was seconded by Th. Barlow 
of Queen's, who had first began to be tampering with him 
and draw him on in this piece of roguery. He (Clayton 1 ) 
told Jones, that he could easily prefer him thro the endea- 
vours of his brother in law S r . Charles Cotterel, Mr. of 
the ceremonies : and if that took no effect, he would after 
some yeares resigne his wardenship, and by friends get 
him to succeed him. 

With these pitiful promises, invitations to his house, 
dinners, treats, fair words, flatteries, and I know not what, 
Jones promised to be faithfull to him in his knavery, and 
so he was, as 'tis before told you. But when Clayton 
was setled in his place, and Jones fully saw, that he neg- 
lected him, and made him only a shoinghorne (for the 
truth is Clayton was false, mealie mouth' d and poore 
spirited) and that also the fellows and others of the junior 
party did despise him, and look'd upon him as an errant 
knave, he in great discontent retir'd, kept his chamber, 
and never came into the company of any person in the 

' Sir Thomas Clayton was the again under the year 1687, as 

son of Dr. Thomas Clayton, re- well as the Fasti under the 

gius professor of physic, in which years 161 1 and 1639 ; and Ward's 

place he succeeded him. See Lives of the Gresham Professors, 

Athene in the account of Dr. p. 208. W. & H. 
Case under the year 1599, and 



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coll. or out of the coll. so that soon after being possest 
with a deep melancholy, which his strength and reason 
could not weare away, without charg to himself; he fell, as 
'twere, downe right mad, not raving, but idle and frantick, 
as it appeares by these passages. (1) By his walking on 
the mount in the college garden, very betimes in a morn- 
ing, at which time he fancied birds to nutter about his 
head, and therefore he would be waving his armes and hat 
to keep them off. (2) By going oftentimes very unsea- 
sonably to the warden's lodgings, and there court and 
embrace one M ris . - - - Wood, asking her at the same 
time, whether the lord chancellour (Hyde) was not then 
behind the hangings ? (3) By going once, if not twice, 
betimes in the morning to the chamber of Mr. Pet. 
Nicolls, one of the fellows, to get him to go with him 
to take possession of the warden's lodgings, fan[c]ying 
himself to be warden. (4) By walking often in the war- 
den's gallery, supposing himself to be warden, &c. with 
many other ridiculous matters not now to be named; 
which shew, that the man wanted sleep, and that he was 
blinded with ambition and covetuousness. 

At length, upon some perswasion, he went to London 
an. 1662-3. or thereabouts, and by the favour of some 
people (of whom Arnold a civilian and college tenant was 
one) he got a chamber in Doctors Commons, endeavour- 
ing to get practice there among the civilians. But at length 
being found to be craz'd, had little or no employment. 
Afterwards taking a lodging in great Woodstreet in that 
city, remained there in great discontent till the great 
plague raged, and then by the just hand of God being 
overtaken by that disease, he was cut off from the living 
in the latter end of Sept. or beginning of Octob. an. 1665, 
being a just reward for a knave and a rogue. 

Now for the mischief that befel Mert. coll. by having 



l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 121 

a married stranger thrust upon them, will appeare by that 
which followes. But before I proceed to the particulars, 
I must tell you, that Clayton being fully possest at his 
first comming in warden, that the fellows were all his ene- 
mies, and that they endeavored to conceale the college- 
treasure from him, and not let him know the worth of his 
place, as it was often buz'd into his head by his flatterers 
(among whome D r . Th. Barlow must not be forgotten, 
D r . Jones also, and another of inferior note named John 
Haselwood, a proud, starched, formal and sycophantizing 
clisterpipe, who was the apothecary to Clayton when he 
practiced physick) he took all occasions imaginable to lay 
out money, spend and imbezile, and this forsooth was 
done upon the information of those persons, that whatso- 
ever the warden disburses for his owne use, the college 
must defray. 

First therefore, he and his family, most of them women- 
kind (which before were looked upon, if resident in the 
college, a scandall and an abomination thereunto) beeing 
no sooner setled, but a great dislike was taken by the lady 
Clayton to the warden's standing goods, namely chaires, 
stooles, tables, chimney-furniture, the furniture belonging 
to the kitchin, scullery, &c. all which was well liked by 
D r . Goddard, Brent, Savile, &c. These, I say, being dis- 
liked by that proud woman, because, forsooth, the said 
goods were out of fashion, must be all changed and altered 
to the great expence of the college. 

Secondly, the warden's garden must be alter' d, new 
trees planted, arbours made, rootes of choice flowers Rootes of 
bought, &c. All which tho unnecessary, yet the poore which cost 
coll. must pay for them, and all this to please a woman. s S ^ L a 
Not content with these matters, there must be a new 
summer-house built at the south-end of the warden's 
garden, wherein her ladyship and her gossips may take 



122 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 

their pleasure, and any eves-dropper of the family may 
harken what any of the fellows should accidentally talk of 
in the passage to their owne garden. And tho the warden 
(Clayton) told the society, that it would not cost the col- 
lege above 20 11 . yet when it was finished there was an 
100 11 . paid for it by the bursar, wanting some few shil- 
lings. This work was thought unnecessary by many per- 
sons, because it joyned almost to the long gallery, the larg 
bay-window whereof at it's south-end affords a better pro- 
spect, than that of the summer-house. 

Thirdly, by enlarging the expences in the stable much 
more than any of his predecessors. For tho S r . Nath 
Brent did keep four coach-horses, yet he was often absent. 
But sir Thomas tho he be often absent, yet two of his 
coach-horses (besides saddle-nags) were alwaies in the sta- 
ble. Farther also, whereas the former wardens would take 
but ten or twelve load of hay out of Halywell meads (which 
belong to the coll. and are in the tenure of a tenant) yet 
this doughty knight did take up 34 load at least. And tho 
he used it not half, yet at the yeare's end he did, like a 
curr-mudgin, sell it, and put the money in his purse. 

Fourthly, by burdning his accompts with frivolous ex- 
pences, to pleasure his proud lady, as (1) For a key to the 
lock of the ladies seat in St. Marie's church, to which she 
would commonly resort. (2) For shoes and other things 
for the foot-boy. 

Fiftly, by burning in one yeare threescore pounds 
worth of the choicest billet that could be had, not only in 
all his roomes, but in the kitchin among his servants; 
without any regard had to cole, which usually (to save 
charges) is burnt in kitchins, and somtimes also in parlours. 

Sixthly, by encroaching upon, and taking away the 
rooms belonging to the fellows. One instance take for 
all. Mr. Fisher quitted his lodgings (viz. an upper cham- 



l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 123 

ber with 3 studies, and a lower chamber with as many, in 
the great quadrangle) in July an. 1665, upon notice that 
the king and queen would shortly come to Oxon. there to 
take up their winter-quarters till towards the spring. 
When the K. and Qu. came which was about Michaelmas 
following, M ris . Franc. Stuart, one of the maids of honour 
(afterwards duchess of Richmond) took possession of those 
lodgings, and there continued till Febr. following ; at 
which time the queen, who lodged in the warden's lodg- 
ings, went to Westminster, and M ris . Stuart with her, 
and then Mr. Fisher's lodgings laid empty for some time. 
At length the warden finding, that the lower chambers of 
the said lodgings were convenient for him, because they 
joyned on the south side to his parlour, and therefore they 
would make a dainty retiring room, or at least an inner 
parlour, he did, by egregious flattery with some of the fel- 
lowes, particularly with Mr. Sterry, by inviting him and 
them often to his lodgings, get their consents so farr, as 
when it was proposed at a meeting of the society, to have the 
said rooms granted for his use, it was done conditionally, 
that the lower chamber, joyning to the bay-tree, in the 
first quadrangle, which did belong to the warden, may 
henceforth be allowed to that fellow, which should here- 
after come into that chamber over those lower rooms that 
were allowed for the warden's use. This being granted, 
the warden broke a dore thro the wall that parts his par- 
lour from the said lower romes and makes them fit for 
use, at his owne, and not at the college, charge ; and they 
vet remaine for the warden's use : whereby the best lodsr- 

a. * O 

ings in the college, which usually belonged [to] the senior 
fellow, were severed and spoyl'd ; and all this to please a 
proud and silly woman. But afterwards when Mr. Sterry 
saw, that he was made a shoing-horne to serve the war- 
den's turne, (for afterwards he disus'd his company, and 



124 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 

never invited him to his lodgings as formerly, only at 
Christmas, when the whole society used to dine there) he 
became his enemy, repented of what he had done before 
the society, and blamed his owne weakness much to be so 
much imposed upon, as he had been, by the most false 
and perfidious warden. 

Sevently, by his going to law with the citie of Oxon. 
concerning certaine liberties in Halywell neare the said 
citie, (the mannour of which belongeth to Merton coll.) 
an. 1666. For the doing of which tho, with much adoe, he 
got the consent of the fellowes, yet going inconsideratly 
on, and not taking the counsell of old Charles Holloway, 
serjeant at law, the college was cast and much endamaged. 
And A. W. doth well remember, that the citizens insulted 
so much, when they overcame the coll. in their sute, 
which was tried in Westminster hall, that in their returne 
from London, the mayor, or chief officers of the city, did 
ride into Oxon. triumphantly thro Halywell, to take, as it 
were, possession of the liberties, that they had obtained 
therein. And one - - - - Chilmead, as he remembers, 
who had been one of the b el-men of the city, but then 
living as an under tenant in Halywell, did in their pas- 
sage present them with wine and ale, while the parish 
bells rang for joy, occasioned, as 'twas supposed, by the 
said Chilmead. 

In all these unreasonable proceedings, Joseph Harvey, 
one of the fellowes, did constantly oppose the warden, and 
had there been more Harvey s (for he was a man of a high 
and undaunted spirit) they would have curVd his pro- 
ceedings so much, that they would have made him weary 
of the place : but most of them (the fellowes) being sneak- 
ing and obnoxious, they did run rather with the temper of 
the warden, than stand against him, meerly to keep them- 
selves in, and enjoy their comfortable importances. 



l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 125 

And now by this time the college was ran exceedingly 
into debt, and how to pay it the society knew not. At 
length, upon consultation, the society addressed them- 
selves to their patron, the archbishop of Canterbury 
(Sheldon) an. 1671, before whom they made it plainly to 
appear e, that, by the warden's meanes, the coll. was run 
into debt, and that, by comparing his accompts with the 
accompts of those of S r . Nath. Brent, he had spent a 
thousand pound more than the said S r . Nathaniel, for the 
yeares behind, since he had been warden, &c. The war- 
den S r . Thomas is therefore chid and reprehended by the 
archbishop ; which was all the remedy that they could get, 
and an order was then made that the college should pay 
the debt, and not the warden ; which was then look'd upon 
as a most unreasonable thing. But there was falsness 
in the matter ; for he that had for 7 yeares spoken against 
the u wardin and his proceedings, and was an enemy to E. D, 
him, the warden did, by his usual flatteries, gain him for 
a time, collogued together, and worked their ends so 
much, that they found means that the college should pay 
the debt ; which being done, slighted him. x 

In 1667 'twas expected there should be an election of 
fellowes, but, upon pretence that the college was in debt, 

u Sic. Hearne. he has pointed him out here. 

x The reader may see an ac- It is possible that the Dr. when 

count of Dr. Dikenson in the he found all opposition to be in 

Biographia Brit, in the course of vain, might shew such personal 

which this censure on his charac- civility to the warden, as, to a 

ter is considered. But it is not man of Mr. a Wood's rigid per- 

quite clear that the prejudices severance, appeared inconsistent 

against the Dr. took their rise with his former professions and 

from the increase of the fine paid behaviour. See Biograph. Brit. 

by Mr. a Wood's family to Mer- vol. hi. p. 1696. [or vol. v. p. 

ton coll. since he might have 175 of the edition by Kippis.] 

treated the Dr. as freely under W. & H. 
that article, in the yeare 1664, as 



126 LIFE OF WOOD. [l66l. 

there was no election made till 1672. So the publick 
suffered, and all people then said, that Merton coll. made 
bnt an inconsiderable figure in the universities &c. 

Notwithstanding all these things, yet the warden, by 
the motion of his lady, did put the college to unnecessary 
charges, and very frivolous expences, among which were a 
very larg looking-glass, for her to see her ugly face, and 
body to the middle, and perhaps lower, which was bought 
in Hilary terme 1674, and cost, as the bursar told me, 
about 10 1 '. A bedsteed and bedding worth 40 u . must also 
be bought, because the former bedstede and bedding was 
too short for him (he being a tall man) so perhaps when a 
short warden comes, a short bed must be bought. As his 
bed was too short, so the wicket of the common gate 
entring into the coll. was too low, therefore that was made 
higher in 1676, in the month of August. The said bursar 
G. Roberts hath several times told me, that either he the 
warden, or his lady do invent, and sit thinking how to put 
the college to charge, to please themselves, and no end 
there is to their unlimited desire. He told me also, that 
there was no terrier taken of the goods he had, which 
were bought at the college charg ; and therefore they did 
carry many of them, especially the looking glass, to their 
country seat, called The Vach, in Chalfont parish neare 
Wycomb in Bucks, which S r . Tho. Clayton had bought of 
the duke of York, who had received the said mannour 
from the king, fallen unto him by the attainder of Georg 
Fleetwood, esq;, one that sate in judgment on K. Ch. I. 
Jun. 29. A. W. was at Sandfordy neare Oxon. in the house of 

y Minchery and Sandford ; of A prospect of the Minchery is 

these two religious houses see in the last mentioned work, p. 285. 

Tanner's Notitia Monast. p. 424 The antique table there delineat- 

&c. Leland' s Itinerary, vol. ii. and ed was, some years ago, removed 

the preface to Hearne's History to the Manor house at Sandford; 

of Glastonbury, p. xvi. where upon a late enquiry, no 



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127 



Joh. Powell, gent. 2 which was a house and preceptoiy 
somtimes belonging to the Knights Templars. He took a 
note of some armes in a bay-window in a low room there. 
Thence he went to Littlemore, and neare it he found an 
antient house, called Mincherie, or Minchionrea, that is, 
the place of nunns, founded there of old time. But 
nothing of the chappel or church is there standing. 



remains of it were extant. W. 
&H. 

z [The Powells were a very an- 
cient family long settled at, and 
possessing the manor of, Sand- 
ford; and the name will be re- 
garded with the greater interest 
from the certainty that it is the 
same family with which Milton 
afterwards became connected by 
marriage; although the poet's 
father in law lived, it is said, at 
Forest hill. I suspect there were 
two families, nearly connected, 
but residing, the one at Sandford 
the other at Forest hill. I find 
in the Matriculation Register, 
marked PP. the following entries; 
the two latter brothers in law of 
Milton :— 

" 1628 Maij 23°. Aul. Alb. Gul. 
Powell Oxon. fil. Edmundi Powell 
de Sanford in com. p'd. gen. an. 
nat. 12, 

" 1636. Mar. 10. iEdes Christi. 
Thomas Powell, Oxon. fil. i us . 
Rich'i Powell de Fforest hill in 
com. p'd. arm. an. nat. 14. 

" 1640. Maiii8. Jacob. Powell, 
Oxon. fil. Rich'i Powell de Fforest 
hill in com. Oxon. arm. an. nat- 

14." 

There are in the Archives some 
very curious inventories of plate 



pledged to the university for ad- 
vances of money, and among these 
the following : — 

" P'cells of Plate layed to gage 
by Edmunde Powell of Sandforde 
in the countie of Oxon. esquyer 
17 Junii 1557. 

" Ffyrste three guylte bolls and 
one couer waying threescore and 
four vnces, eu'ry vnce syxe shil- 
lings. 

" Itm a bason and a ewer syluer 
and guylte a salte seller and a 
couer guylte waying fourscore 
two vnces, syxe shillings eu'ry 
vnce. 

"Itm halfe a dosen of spones 
with thapostles at thendes, par- 
cell guylte waying twelue vnces, 
eu'ry vnce fyve shillings. 

" Sum. totalis xlvj 11 . xvj s . 
the wiche Som I the said Edmud 
Powell haue rec'ud the yere and 
daye aboue wrytten 

"h me Edmud Powell." 

This plate does not appear to 
have been redeemed : for in a 
computus made in 1576 of the 
contents of the university chest, 
we find 

W. Chaberlaines plate xl 11 . 
Edm. Powell's plate . . xlvj 11 . xvj s . 
W. Stadish plate .... xviij 11 . 
Rob. Lougher's plate . lvij 11 .] 



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[l66l. 



Aug. 20. 



Oct. 2. 
See Oxford 
ObitaL 



He was at Thame, continued there one or more nights, 
transcribed all the monumentall inscriptions in the church, 
armes in the windowes, and the armes in the windowes of 
the free-schoole a . 

With D r . Jo. Fell, deane of Ch. Church, to have a 
sight of the leiger books of S. Frideswide's priory, and 
Einsham abbey. His answer was, that he would acquaint 
the treasurer D r . Joh. Dolbin, which he did. Afterwards 
A. W. went to D r . Dolbin, who told him, he would pro- 
pose the matter at the next chapter. But the matter 
being defer' d from time to time, nothing was done in it 
this yeare b . 

His fatherly acquaintance D r . Barton Holyday c , arch- 



a See Wood, MSS. in mus. 
Ashm. 8518 2. W. & H. 

b The lives and characters of 
Dr. Fell and Dr. Dolben are so 
well known that little need be 
said of either in this place. They 
were both educated in Westmin- 
ster school, and elected from 
thence to Christ Church college. 
They both took up arms for the 
royal cause, during the civil com- 
motions, and suffered for their 
loyalty by being deprived of their 
studentships. After the restora- 
tion, they both met with the due 
reward of their merit, the former 
being advanced to the deanery of 
Ch. Ch. and the bishoprick of 
Oxford, the latter rising thro' 
various preferments to the arch- 
bishoprick of York. Both were 
men of extensive literature, and of 
noble and enlarged minds. The 
former will be always remembered 
in the university of Oxon. his 



sphere of action, as an example of 
industry and polite learning, of 
true zeal for the church of Eng- 
land, and as an encourager and 
patron of the sciences and learned 
men. For more minute particu- 
lars, see the Ath. Oxon. under 
the year 1686. W. & H. 

c Barten Holiday, D.D. and 
archdeacon of Oxford, died at 
Eifley near Oxon. 2 Oct. between 
7 and 8 in the morn, and was 
buried the 5th of the said month, 
in the cathedrall of Ch. Church. 
He had by his first wife, Eliz. 
dau. of Will. Wickham of Gar- 
sington, William, who was mar- 
ried, but died without issue, at 
Abendon, and buried in Garsing- 
ton church 28 January 1663, 
Thomas, sine prole, and George, 
and also a daughter or two. Af- 
terwards he married Margaret 
dau. of Sheppard of Barn- 
staple in Devon, but the widdow 



l66l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 129 

deacon of Oxon. died at Eifley, of an ague, or of the new 
epidemical disease, which now raged. 

Saturday, buried in the cath. of Ch. Ch. Jan. 5. 

A. W. had an issue made in his left legg under his 10. 
knee, by the advice of Rich. Lower d , a physitian of Ch. 
Ch. This he kept open several yeares after. And tho 
it did his stomach good, yet by his continual standing at 
his study, and much walking withall, too much of the 
humour issued out, which alwaies after made his left legg 
and thigh cold, especially in the winter-time. And he 
now thinks, that when age comes upon him, it will turne 
to the dead palsie and be his death. 

His kinswoman Ellen Pettie, the widdow of CharnelMar. 10. 
Pettie, esq;, died at Stoke-Lyne, aged 85 or more, and 
was buried by her husband in the church there. 

He received his first letters from Will. Somner the an- «• 
tiquary of Canterbury, with a copie of the foundation- 
charter of Canterbury college in Oxon. 

of Franc. Dewy, Mr. of Arts, and Astrop, and for his experiments 
minister of Chipnam in Wilts, by relating to the transfusion of 
whom he had issue Barten Holy- blood from one subject to an- 
day and a daughter. The said other, recorded in the Philosophi- 
Margaret, widdow of Dr. Holy- cal Transactions ; of which never- 
day, died at Eifley 16 Dec. 1661, theless he was not the original in- 
and was buried in the chancel ventor. After many years sue- 
there. Wood's MSS. in mus. cessful practice in London, he 
Ashm. 8466. W. & H. died there, on the 17 th of Janu- 

d Dr. Lower was an eminent ary 1690, and was buried at St. 

physician in the reign of King Tudy near Bodmin in Cornwall. 
Charles II. He was educated at His name has been impudently 

Christ Church college under the affixed to many nostrums sold in 

famous Dr. Willis, of whom he the shops. The print of him is 

learned to be an excellent ana- suspected to be a counterfeit, 
tomist, and is said, in return, to See the Ath. Oxon. under the 

have communicated many curious year 1690. Philos. Transact. N°. 

discoveries to that great man. Dr. 30.37. Granger's Biograph. His- 

Lower is remarkable for first find- tory of England, vol. 2. part 2. 

ing out the medicinal spring at pag. 314. W. & H. 

WOOD, VOL. I. K 



130 LIFE OF WOOD. [1662. 

1662. Charles, duke e of Richmond, took to wife Margaret, tlie 
13 Car. II. window f Will. Lewes, of Glamorganshire, and of Blech- 
indon in Oxf or [d] shire, esq;, and soon after, with her 
consent, sold her estate at Blechindon, which her hnsband 
had bought, as it seemes, of S r . Tho. Coghill, to Arthur 
earl of Anglesie. This duke was a most rude and de- 
bauched person, kept sordid company, and having em- 
ployed a little crooked back taylor of Oxon, named - - - - 
Heme, he would often drink with him, quarrel, and the 
taylor being too hard for him, would get him downe and 
bite his eare. 
Jun. 4. Hen. Jackson, f his kinsman, rector of Hampton Mey- 

sey, died, and next day A. W. went thither, and gave his 
See Ath. assisting hand to lay him in his grave. He was one of 
the first learned acquaintance that A. W. had ; and being 
delighted in his company, he did for the 3 last yeares of 
his life constantly visit every summer, continue with him 
4 or 5 dayes, and heare his stories with delight, that he 
would tell him, concerning divers learned men of the uni- 
versitie and his college (Corp. Chr.) that lived and flou- 
rished when he was a yong man. 
6. J. W. esq;, an intimate acquaintance with A. W. when 

a junior, died in the flower of his youth, and two dayes 



e Stuart. Hearne. ral of whose tracts he published. 

f Hen. Jackson, the son of Hen. His house being plundered in the 

Jackson, mercer, was born in St. time of the rebellion, his papers 

Mary's parish, Oxford, was at were scattered and rendered so 

first clerk, then scholar, and after- imperfect as not to be recovered, 

wards fellow of C. C. college, by Amidst these were the works of 

which society he was presented to Pet. Abaelard, which he had col- 

the rectory of Meysey Hampton, lected from the MSS. and made 

Gloucestershire, which was all the ready for the press, 

preferment he ever enjoyed. He See Athene Oxon. under the 

was a great admirer of Richard year 1662. Wood's MSS. in mus. 

Hooker and Joh. Rainolds, seve- Ashm. 8563. W. & H. 



1 662.] LIFE OF WOOD./* 131 

after was buried in the church of Highworth in Wilts. 
He was the eldest son and heir of Edm. W. g 

Quid species, quid lingua mihi, quid profuit Eetas ? 
Da lachrymas Tumulo, qui legis ista, meo. 

A. W. having* then and before often considered, what Jul y- 
want there was of a register for the parish wherein he was 
borne, and wherein he lived, called the collegiate parish of 
S. Joh. Baptist h Merton; he was resolved to begin one. 
Wherefore getting the notes of all such marriages, births, 
christnings and burialls, which Mr. Joh. Wilton, an an- 
tient chaplayn of Merton coll. had made before he went 
to be vicar of Great Wolford in Warwickshire, and also 
taking an account of all the fathers and mothers of the 
same parish then living, what children they had borne 

£ [I am indebted to the Rev. of Highworth, for the following- 
Edward Rowden, M. A. late fellow extract, and epitaph, which iden- 
of New college and now rector tify Anthony's friend : — 

Inter Nomina Sepultorum 1662. 
John Warnford Esq. buried June 7 th . 
Inscription over the grave of the same, in a chapel belonging 
to the Warneford family, in Highworth church. 
Here lyeth the body of John Warneford Esq. 
Son of Edmund Warneford of Seavenhampton in the County of 
Wilts Esq. who departed this life, 
June 6. 1662. 
Reader, 'tis too late now, to bee good or wise, 
Wrapt up in night, their great example lies. 
Whose knowledge did enlarge not swell his mind, 
His sweetness naturall, and undesign'd. 
His thoughts calm as his brow, an equall aire 
Torn by no angry tempest, but still faire. 
Wouldst thou know more ? then let the country come, 
Their tongues his epitaph, their heart his tomb. 

Sevenhampton is a hamlet in the Warnefords, and are now pos- 
parish of Highworth, the lands of sessed by Lady Wetherell Warne- 
which are above two thousand ford, the relict of sir Charles 
acres, and they have been many Wetherell.] 
centuries the property of the h F. Baptist de Merton. 

k2 



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[l66 2 . 



therein, christned or buried, he bought a parchment regis- 
ter, which cost him 7s. at least, and remitted them all 
therein, as also the names of such that had been taken, in 
the time of Oliver and Eichard, by one' - - - - Jelly- 
man, that had been appointed by the usurped powers to 
write downe in a register the names of such that had been 
christned and buried in several parishes in Oxon. of which 
S. Joh. Baptist's parish was one, &c. This register which 
A. "W. began, he doth continue to this day, and will do 
the like till the time of his death. k 



1 Matthew Jellyman, registrary 
for 5 parishes, viz. S 1 . Mary's, 
Allsaints, S*. Peters' in the East, 
S t . Michaels, and &. John's 1653. 
Sic in notula quadam, meam in 
gratiam exscripta a Ven. Rev. Jo- 
hanne Pointero, A.M. 8f coll. Mert. 
capellano. Hearne. 
k A Register of Births, Christnings 
Burials and Marriages that 
have bin in the parish belon- 
ging to the Collegiate Chu- 
rch of St. John Bap- 
tist, Merton : 
in Oxon. 

Note that in the yeare 1662 I 
made a motion to Mr. Peter Nicolls 
subwarden of Merton college of 
having a Regr for S. John Bapt. 
parish, having never been any be- 
fore that time ; wherfore with the 
consent of some of the fellowes, 
I bought divers scheeds of parch- 
ment and had them bound up, 
which cost the college seaven shil- 
lings. Afterwards the register 
being put into my hands, I entred 
all my collections which I had 
made before that time, and have 



continued them under my hand 
to this year. 

Ita testor Antonius a Wood, 
coll. Merton art. mag. 

The 10 of Octob. an 1653. 
Matthew Jellyman was elected and 
sworne register before us, jus- 
tices of peace for the city of Ox- 
ford, whose names are here under 
written, for five parishes viz. Ma- 
ries, Allsaints, Peters in the East, 
Michaell and S. Johns, being 
united into one, at the generall 
sessions of the peace held for the 
said city at the Gild hall within 
the said city, on Thursday next 
after the feast of Saint Michael 
the Archangel, an. 1653 aforesaid, 
by vertue of an act of parliament 
intituled "An act touching mar- 
riages and the registring of them, 
as also touching births and bu- 
rialls." 

In testimony whereof, wee have 

here set our hands 

Tho. Williams. 
Thomas Berry. 

Note that by vertue of the said 
act, was a register in vellome made 



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At Abendon in Berks with J. C. purposely to see the Sept. 10. 
manner of the visitation, then held by the diocesan, D r . 
Hnmp. Henchman, bp. of Salisbury. He then saw the 
ruins J of the most antient and stately abbey, that once 



for the said 5 parishes, and con- 
tinued by the said Jellyman till 
1660, but so imperfectly, that in 
those 7 yeares viz. from 1653 to 
1660 were hardly 10 names in that 
part of it, belonging to S. John 
Bapt. par. At that time when 
'twas taken to peices, and S. John 
Bapt. part surrendered into my 
hands, I transmitted all the names 

therin into this Register Ita 

testor Antonius a Wood. 

See the Register itself ex auto- 
graph. Ant. a Wood, in Bib. Bodl. 
W. & H. 

1 I have in my study a printed 
poem, (being only a single sheet) 
in 4 t0 . intituled, In honour of 
Abingdon or on the Seaventh day 
of September's solemnization 1641. 
By John Richardson Serjeant of 
Abingdon in the County of Berks. 
Printed in the year e 1641. I do 
not remember to have seen an- 
other copy of this little thing, 
which I have several times read 
with great pleasure, there being 
several particulars of great remark 
in it, as will appear from the fol- 
lowing abstract thereof, which I 
have entered in my MSS. collec- 
tions, (viz. vol. 115. p. 114.) " It 
is dedicated to the worshipfull the 
major, bayliffs, and burgesses of 
Abingdon. The king and par- 
liament had published and de- 
creed, that, on the said 7 th of Sept. 



1641. every parish should keep a 
festival (religiously to be per- 
form'd) in honour of the great 
peacemaker, upon account of the 
accommodation with the Scots. 

" Calena is here made to be 
Oxford. K. Cissa is made to 
be founder of the abbey. The 
ruin'd battlements of the abbey 
then (1641) to be seen. The 
crosse then standing, which is 
here call'd ' unparallel'd and 
harmless,' but threatn'd to be 
destroy'd. S 1 . Helen's bells (what 
I never heard before) are call'd 
' Aaron's bells.' Christ's hospi- 
tall near the churchyard wall. 
Where were also Royse's fruitful 
' Nurseries,' out of which the E. 
of Pembrook's gardens were sup- 
plied. There is now no nursery, 
nor any tradition of one. The 
said 7 th day was a Tuesday. The 
festival was proclaim'd, because 
a joyfull peace was concluded be- 
twixt the Scots and us. S*. Ni- 
cholas's bells call'd ' honest Nick's 
Lowbells.' The hundred and 
sixth psalm sung by two thou- 
sand ' quoristers ' at the crosse. 
The figure of K. David upon the 
crosse, tho' afterwards destroy'd 
by ' hair-brain'd Separatists,' an 
epithet made use of for that crew 
by the author. Mention of the 
skilfull serjeant Corderoy. Men- 
tion of the well known Antelop 



134 LIFE OF WOOD. [1662. 

stood there ; but those ruins are since gone [to] ruin. A 
great scandal it is, that that most noble structure should 
now have little or no memory of it left. 

Oct. 11. With D r . Mich. Woodward, warden of New coll. to see 

the registers and some records of that house. He put me 
off from the present with some notes of his owne concern- 
ing the wardens thereof, benefactors, bishops, &c. 

Nov. 10. His kinsman Joh. Taverner, of Soundess in the parish 
of Nettlebed, was made choice of by his majestie to be 
high-sherriff of Oxfordshire, &c. 

Feb. 11. He was with his cozen Taverner at the Swan-inn in 

Oxon. where he was a witness, that Mr. Abr. Davis should 
let his house in Grandpool in S. Aldate's parish, during 
the time of assize then approaching, and in the time of 
assize in the summer following, for 6 U . a time ; but if Mr. 
Taverner should die before summer assize, then should he 
have only 6' 1 '. for the Lent assize. He was also then a 
witness to other things, agreed upon between them &c. 

Mar. 6. Joh. Taverner made his first entry into Oxon. to con- 

duct thereunto justice Rob. Hyde. 
9. Given to his cozen Taverner the high sheriff and M ris . 
Mary Harris his daughter, upon their departure from 
Oxon. each of them a book fairly bound, containing the 
works of his brother Edw. Wood, deceased. 
1663. He began a course of chimistry under the noted chimist 

* 4 ar * ' and rosicrucian, Peter Sthael of Strasburgh in Royal 
Prussia, and concluded in the latter end of May following. 
The club consisted of 10 at least, whereof Franc. Turner 
of New coll. was one, (since bishop of Ely) Benjam. 
Woodroff of Ch. Ch. another, (since canon of Ch. Ch.) 
and Joh. Lock of the same house, afterwards a noted 

in Abbington. No feast to be pa- teene or foureteene pounds) eol- 
rallel'd with this of Abbingdon. lected that day for the poor. The 
A great deal of money (viz. thir- author a Cavalier." Hearne. 



1663.] LIFE OF WOOD. 135 

writer. This Jo. Lock was a man of a turbulent spirit, 
clamorous and never contented. The club wrot and took 
notes from the mouth of their master, who sate at the 
upper end of a table, but the said J. Lock scorned to do 
it ; so that while every man besides, of the club, were 
writing, he would be prating and troblesome. This P. 
Sthael, who was a Lutheran and a great hater of women, 
was a very useful man, had his lodging in University coll. 
in a chamber at the west end of the old chappel. He was 
brought to Oxon. by the honorable Mr. Rob. Boyle, an. 
1659, and began to take to him scholars in the house of 
Joh. Cross next, on the W. side, to University coll. where 
he began but with three scholars ; of which number Jo- 
seph Williamson of Queen's coll. was one, afterwards a 
knight and one of the secretaries of state under K. Ch. 2. 
After he had taken in another class of six there, he trans- 
lated himself to the house of Arth. Tylliard an apothecary, 
the next dore to that of Joh. Cross, saving one, which is a 
taverne : where he continued teaching till the latter end 
of 1662. The chiefest of his scholars were D r . Joh. Wallis, 
Mr. Christopher Wren, afterwards a knight and an emi- 
nent virtuoso, Mr. Thorn. Millington of Alls. coll. after- 
wards an eminent physitian and a knight, Nath. Crew 
of Line. coll. afterwards bishop of Durham, Tho. Branker 
of Exeter coll. a noted mathematician, D r . Ralph Bathurst 
of Trin. coll. a physitian, afterwards president of his col- 
lege and deane of Wells, D r . Hen. Yerbury and D r . Tho. 
m Janes, both of Magd. coll. Rich. Lower a physitian of 
Ch. Ch. Rich. Griffith, M. A. fellow of University coll. 
afterwards D r . of phys. and fellow of the coll. of physitians, 
and several others. 

About the beginning of the yeare 1663 Mr. Sthael re- 

m Sic. Hearne. 



136 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l66 3« 

moved his school or elaboratory to a draper's house, called 
Joh. Bowell, afterwards mayor of the citie of Oxon. situat 
and being in the parish of Allsaints, commonly called All- 
hallowes. He bnilt his elaboratory in an old hall or re- 
fectory in the backside, (for the house it self had been an 
antient hostle) wherein A. W. and his fellowes were in- 
structed. In the yeare following Mr. Sthael was called 
away to London, and became operator to the Royal So- 
ciety, and continuing there till 1670, he returned to Oxon. 
in Nov. and had several classes successively; but the 
names of them I know not ; and afterwards going to Lon- 
don againe, died there about 1675, and was buried in the 
church of S. Clement's Dane, within the libertie of West- 
minster. 

May 30. The chimical club concluded, and A. W. paid Mr. Sthael 

30 shill. having, in the beginning of the class, given 30 
shillings beforehand. A. W. got some knowledge and 
experience; but his mind still hung after antiquities and 
musick. 

June. S r . Charles Sedley, B c , somtimes of Wadham coll. 

Charles lord Buckhurst (afterwards earl of Middlesex) S r . 
Thorn. Ogle, &c. were at a cook's house, at the signe of the 
cock in Bow-street neare Covent-garden, within the liber- 
tie of Westminster ; and being all innam'd with strong 
liquors, they went into the balcony, joyning to their cham- 
ber-window, and putting downe their breeches, they ex- 
crementized in the street. Which being done, Sedley 
stripped himself naked, and with eloquence preached blas- 
phemy to the people. Whereupon a riot being raised, the 
people became very clamorous, and would have forced the 
dore, next to the street, open; but being hindred, the 
preacher and his company were pelted into their rome 
or chamber, and the windows belonging thereunto were 
broken. 



1663.] LIFE OF WOOD. 137 

This frollick being soon spread abroad, especially by the 
fanatical party, who aggravated it to the utmost, by making 
it the most scandalous thing in nature, and nothing more 
reproachful to religion than that, the said company were 
summoned to the court of justice in Westminster hall, 
where being indicted of a riot before S r . Rob. Hyde, lord 
ch. justice of the Common Pleas, were all fined, and S r . 
Char. Sedley being fined 500^. he made answer, that he 
thought he was the first man that paid for shiting. S r . 
Rob. Hyde asked him, whether he ever read the book, 
called, The Compleat Gentleman, &c. ? to which S r . Charles 
made answer, that, " set aside his lordship, he had read 
more books than himself," &c. The day of payment being 
appointed, S r . Charles desired Mr. Hen. Killigrew and 
another gent, to apply themselves to his majestie, to get 
it off, but instead of that, they beg'd the said sum of his 
majestie, and would not abate S r . Charles two pence of the 
money. Afterwards S r . Charles taking up, and growing 
very serious, he was chosen a recruiter for that long par- 
liament, which began 8 May 1661. and was dissolved in 
the latter end of 1678. This memoir is here set downe, 
because A. W. had some acquaintance with sir Ch. Sedley, 
and afterwards some acquaintance with Charles L d . Buck- 
hurst, when he was earl of Middlesex, at which time he 
would come with Fleetwood Shepheard to Great Rowlright 
in Oxfordshire, and thence 3 miles beyond to Weston, in 
the parish of Long-Compton, to visit Mr. Sheldon, where 
he found A. W. and discoursed very seriously with him." 

n Hen. Killigrew, Hen. Savile, the suppers of Charles the II. in 
Hen. Guy, Baptist May, Charles the private apartments of his fa- 
lord Buckhurst, John Wilmot, vourite ladies. This last, the son 
earl of Rochester, John earl of of William Sheppard of Great 
Mulgrave, and Fleetwood Shep- Rowlright in Oxfordshire, was 
pard, were members of those first entered a commoner of Mag- 
facetious parties which enlivened dalen hall, and soon after made 



138 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l66 3- 

June. About the 15 of June Arthur Crew, of Magot mill neare 

Highworth in Wiltsh. gent. died. A. W. had been ac- 
quainted with this gentleman about 6 yeares before (he 
living then in Halywell, neare Oxon.) because of his great 
skill and knowledge in heraldry and matters relating to 
English families. This Mr. Crew was very deaf, and there- 
fore living a retired and studious life, did collect and write 
much. After he had left Halywell, he retired to Mag- 
got-mill, where having but little comfort of his wife, he 
soon after died, leaving behind him a yong heire, who 
valuing not his father's labours, because of his igno- 
rance, put most of his papers, as I have heard, to ° in- 
fimous uses. 

July 27. Thorn. Baltzar, one of the violins in the king's service, 

mentioned before under the yeare 1658, was buried in the 
cloyster belonging to S. Peter's church in Westminster. 
See before, under the said yeare. This person being much 
admired by all lovers of musick, his company was there- 
fore desired : and company, especially musical company, 
delighting in drinking, made him drink more than ordi- 
nary, which brought him to his grave. 

Mar. 1. A controversie having been on foot for some time, be- 

tween Dr. Tho. Barlow and Dr. Tho. Lamplugh, concern- 
ing the archdeaconry of Oxford, after the death of Dr. 
Holyday, it was decided on the first day of March by the 

student of Ch. Ch. After the the reign of James II. he was not 

restoration, he went to London much esteemed by the court, 

and commenced an acquaintance But when King William came to 

with the wits and Belle Esprits the crown, he was made one of 

above mentioned. He was made the gentlemen ushers and daily 

steward to Eleanor Gwynne, waiters to that monarch, and 

and afterwards to her son the afterwards usher of the black rod. 

duke of St. Alban's, which em- He was the friend and patron of 

ployment introduced him to the Prior. W. & H. 

notice and favour of the king. In ° Sic. Hearne. 



1664.] LIFE OF WOOD. 139 

judges of assize, sitting in Oxon. for Dr. Barlow, the ac- 
quaintance of A. W. 

A meeting of the warden and fellowes of Merton coll. 1664. 
where the renewing of the leases belonging to the family, * 5 ar * ' 
concerning the housing (Portionists hall and it's appur- 
tenances) against Merton coll. as also of the Flour de 
Luce with it's appurtenances, was by them proposed. They 
set a fine of 70 li . and the lease was but 13 yeares expired. 

The said sum of money was paid into the hand of Dr. 21. 

SeG beforG 

Dickenson the bursar, and the leases were sealed, the fees j n t he yeare 
of which came to 7 11 . 9s. Rog. Brent and Edw. Tur-t 16 * 1 -) 
ner, one a poore, and the other a busy and sneaking fel- 
low, shew'd themselves back-friends in this matter to Mary 
Wood widdow, Robert, Anthony and Christop. Wood her 
sons. 

Will. Ayliff, LL. Bac. somtimes fellow of New coll. 28. 
and a founder's kinsman there, now vicar of Amersden 
neare to Bister in Oxfordshire, and lately schoolmaster of 
Thame school p (but began to teach there after A. W. had 
left that school) leaped naked out of his window, belong- 
ing to the vicaridge of Amersden, and broke several parts of 
his body, and died soon after. He had married a yong rich 
widdow, lived high, and had severall children by her ; but 
shee dying in the prime of her yeares, and leving him and 
the children little or nothing of her estate, and her joyn- 
ture going away with her life, he grew exceedingly discon- 
tented thereupon, and made away with himself. 

From Ap. 29. to May 27. A. W. assisted Dr. Jo. Wallis in Apr. 29. 
digesting and ordering the evidences, writings and books 
belonging to the university, which are reposed in the mu- 
niment room in the school-tower. 

Dr. Tho. Barlow installed archdeacon of Oxon. in theJun. 13. 
cathedral of Ch. church. 

p See pag. 17. 



140 LIFE OF WOOD. [1664. 

Sept. 6. At North-More, with Mr. Pet. Nicolls, where we were 

entertained by Mr. - - - Twyford. Thence wee went to 
Bampton, where wee lodged one night in the house of Mr. 
Tho. Cook, one of the vicars. The next morning very 
early I went to the castle, neare the church there, and 
took the ruins q thereof, and so returned to Oxon. 

Sept. 14. Upon the taking up of a thick marble stone, lying in 
the middle of the choir e of Beverley in Yorkshire, neare 
the entrance into the choire, was found under it a vault 
of squared free-stone, five foot in length, two foot in 
breadth at the head, and one foot and a half at the foot. 
In this vault was discovered a sheet of lead, four foot in 
length, containing the dust of St. John of Beverley, as 
also six beades, three of which were cornelian, the other 
crumbled to dust. There were also in it 3 great brass pins, 
and 4 iron nayles. Upon this sheet of lead was fixed a 
plate of lead, whereon was this following inscription, a 
copie of which was sent to A. W. 
u88. Anno ab incarnatione Domini MCLXXXVIII. combusta 

fuit h(BC ecclesia, in mense Sept. in sequenti node post 
1197. Festum Sancti Matthcei Apostoli, et in anno MCXCVII. VI 
Id. Martii, facta fuit Inquisitio Reliquiarum Beati Johannis 
in hoc loco, et inventa sunt hac ossa in orientali parte Se- 
pulchri, et hie recondita, et pulvis cemento mixtus ibidem 
inventus §■ reconditus. 

A box of lead, about 7 inches in length, six inches 
broad, and five in height, did lay athwart the plate of lead. 
In this box were divers pieces of bones mixt with dust, 
yielding a sweet smell. 

Dec. 16. A blazing starr seen by several people in Oxon. and 

A. W. saw it in few nights after on Botley causey, about 



1 This draught is now in the Ashm. mus. (inter Cod. MSS. Ant. a 
Wood 8505.) 



1664.] LIFE OF WOOD. 141 

6 at night, in his returne from Cumnore. In the next 
yeare followed a great plagne in England, prodigious births, 
great inundations and frosts, warr with the Dutch, sudden 
deaths, particularly in Oxon. &c. 

A. W. and his mother, and his eldest brother and his 3'- 
wife, went to the lodgings of D r . Ralph Bathurst, presi- 
dent of Trinity college, to welcome him to Oxon. who had 
then very lately brought to Oxon. his new married wife, 
Mary, the widdow of D r . Jo. Palmer, r late warden of Alls, 
coll. which Mary was of kin to the mother of A. W. 
They had before sent in sack, claret, cake and sugar, to 
welcome the said married couple. D 1 *. Bathurst was then 
about 46 yeares of age, so there was need of a wife. 

Thorn. Henant, M. A. vicar of Thame, in whose house Jan. 2. 
A. W. sojourned when he went to school there, died. He 
was buried in the chancel there, and was descended from 
the Henants of Henant in the Arbour in Herefordshire. 

M ris . Kath. Fisher, the wife of Thorn. Rowney of Oxon. 30. 
an attorney, and godmother to A. W. died in her hus- 
band's house in S. Giles parish. Buried in the chancell 

r John Palmer, alias Vaulx, Dr. Dr. Palmer had issue by his said 

of physic, warden of Allsoules, wife Mary, John Palmer, a mer- 

one of the recruiters of the long chant in London, Mary, who was 

parliament, died 4 March i6f§> married to Richard Chaundler of 

and was buried in Allsoules cha- Edmundstonby Salisbury, gent, in 

pell towards the upper end. He Trinitie coll. chappell Oxon. 23 

was an apothecarie's son of Taun- Feb. (Shrove-Tuesday) 1669, and 

ton in com. Som. And had took Elizabeth, who was married to 

to wife Mary, (which Mary was George Baynard, master of arts, 

afterward married to Dr. Ralph of Wadham coll. son of Tho. Bay- 

Bathurst, president of Trinitie nard of Clift in com. Dors. gent. 
coll. in Oxon.) the sole daughter The said Mary died in child-bed 

and heire of John Tristram of at Edmunston in the latter end of 

Bampton in com. Devon, coun- April 1680. 

cellour at law (by Mary his wife Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 
one of the daughters of James 8466. Warton's Life of Dr. Bath- 
earl of Marlborough.) The said urst, p. 215. W. & H. 



142 LIFE OF WOOD. [1664. 

of S. Thomas parish church Oxon. at which time A. W. 
was one that held up the pall. 

Feb. 13. A. W. having now spent some years, in perusing the 

registers and muniments in the school tower, by the leave 
only of D r . Wallis, it was now the desire of the said doctor, 
for his owne security, that s I should gaine the leave of 
the vicechancellour, D f . Rob. Say of Oriel coll. Whereupon 
A. W. did repaire to him on the 13 of Febr. and desired 
his leave, which was afterwards granted. l 

Mar. 18. D r . Wallis and A. W. repaired to the vicechancellour, 

and there A. W. did take an oath before them, in the 
presence of Mr. Thorn. Hyde a public notary, to be true 
and faithfull in the trust put on A. W. and not to imbezile 
or purloyne any of the said registers or muniments. 
1665. Another comet in N. E. was seen at Oxon. with the 

M^J 1 ' tayle towards S.E. 

May ult. He began to peruse the evidences of Oriel coll. in their 

treasury, where the society left him to himself, and lent 
him the key. He continued there till the 5 of June. And 
at that time perused some of the registers of that coll. 

Jan. 11. He began to peruse the evidences of Line. coll. The 

rector and fellows put the keys of the tower in his hands, 
and perused them in the chamber of Mr. Hen. Foulis, 
joyning to the said tower ----- Clerke a fellow, con- 
ceited and impertinent, pretending to direct him and in- 
struct him. So whispering Foulis in the u yeare, wee got 
him to be removed. A. W. continued there at least 4 

s Sic. Hearne. different times, for the signature 

t [The original permission, under of the dean of Christ Church, 

the hands of the vice-chancellor neither of them appears to have 

and Dr. Wallis, is among Tanner's been executed, although Wood, it 

MSS. in the Bodleian, N°. 338. is clear, obtained access to the 

There are also similar documents evidences of that house.] 
from various other colleges, but u Sic. Hearne. 

although two were prepared, at 



1665.] LIFE OF WOOD. 143 

dayes, and the rector and fellows had so good opinion of 
him, that they intrusted him with a long bag of money in 
the said treasurie or tower, which A. W. saw there laying. 

He began to peruse the evidences of Universitie coll. 22. 
Mr. Will. Shippen, one of the fellowes and lately proctor 
of the universitie, did attend him. They took the evi- 
dences and rolls out of the tower into an upper chamber 
adjoyning, and there continued till the 29 day. 

In the month of July he perused the evidences, belong- July, 
ing to divers churches in Oxon. as S.Michael on the 5. 
and 6. S. Peter in the east on the 7. and 8. S f . Martin 
on the 21 and 22. S fc . Aldate 28, 29, &c. x 

He began to peruse the evidences of Exeter coll. These Aug. 24. 
are well ordered, and methodically digested, and are re- 
posed in a lower rome, neare to the gatehouse looking 
northwards. They were taken out of the said roome, and 
carried to the lodgings of the rector of that college, called 
D r . Joseph Maynard, and in his dining roome A. W. 
perused them in 4 or 5 dayes; in which time the said 
doctor was exceeding civil to him. This D r . was an old 
standard, had much of a true English temper in him, was 
void of dissimulation and sneaking politicks, and at leisure 
times he would entertaine A. W. with old stories relating 
to the universitie and the learned men of his time. He 
also then perused some of the registers. 

He began to peruse the cat. of fellowes of Exeter coll. Aug. 29. 
which is reposed in the library there, and soon after tran- 
scribed it all for his own use. 

He began to peruse the evidences of Ball. coll. They Sept. 21, 
were taken out of the treasury there, which is a kind of 
vestry, joyning on the S. side to the E. end of the chappel. 
The evidences were taken thence by D r . Savage, the mas- 

x See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8513. p. 35—67. W. & H. 



144 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l ^5- 

ter of that college, and conveyed to his lodgings, where 
A. W. perused them in the space of 3 or 4 days. The old 
accompts of that coll. wherein their fellowes are either 
weekly or quarterly mentioned, are lost. So A. W. was 
much put to a push, to find when learned men had been 
of that coll. 

25. The king came from Salisburie to Oxon. to avoid the 
plague raging throughout the nation, and took up his 
quarters in Ch. Ch. 

26. The queen came for the same purpose, and took up her 
quarters in Merton coll. 

Jan. 27. The K. left Oxon. in order to goe to Westminster. 

Feb. 3. A. W. was with D r . Say the vicechancellour, to have 

his leave to go up into the galleries in BodhVs library, 
where the MSS. are reposed, to the end that he might 
have a full perusal of them, without troubling the second 
keeper, or porter of the said library, to fetch every book 
that he wants, which was granted. A little before this 
grant, A. W. told Mr. Tho. Hyde, the chief keeper of the 
said library, what he intended to doe, and that he should 
goe with him to be a witness of the vicechancellour' s 
leave. Whereupon the time being appointed to goe, which 
was in the afternoon of the same day, he (Mr. Hyde) did 
goe in the morning before to the vicechancellour, and 
desired him not to grant Mr. Wood leave, unless he would 
promise him to give him his helping hand to the making 
of a catalogue of the MSS. in Bodlie's library. So tho 
there was underhand-dealing in this matter, yet Mr. Wood 
did then partly promise to do it; yet Mr. Hyde seeing 
afterwards how he (Mr. Wood) was involved in a public 
work, he never urged him to it a second time. 

Feb. 16. The queen left Oxon. and went after the king to West- 

minster. 

About that time A. W. began to peruse the MSS. in 



l666.] LIFE OF WOOD. 145 

the public library, and took great paynes in plucking 
downe every book. 

He began to peruse the evidences of Alls. coll. which I „°- T 

° r . 17 Car. II. 

were brought from the tower over the gate into the lodg- Ap. n. 
ings of D 1 '. Th. James, warden of the said coll. They were 
put in good method, as Exeter college evidences were, 
and therefore it saved him much trouble. He also perused 
certaine registers of that house, which he was permitted 
to carry home with him for a time. D r . Tho. Millington 
was not then at home, otherwise (as he had told A. W. 
afterwards) he should never have seen them. A. W. asked 
him the reason why? He answered, that as the publica- 
tion of the Monasticons had bred a great deal of trouble, 
and had caused suits in Westminster hall, so would the 
publication of Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. which A. W. 
was about to publish ; but it hath not as yet. 

It was allowed by the society of Merton coll. that A. W. May 4. &c. 
might peruse the evidences in their treasury, in the pre- 
sence of Mr. Pet. Nicolls, one of their number. 

Certaine registers belonging to Magd. coll. were by May 31. 
A. W. perus'd. &c - 

He began to peruse some of the evidences belonging to June 2. 
the said coll. They were taken out of the treasury for 
his use, and put into the exchequer, where he perused 
them, and kept the key in his pocket till he had finish'' d 
them. They were evidences that mostly belonged to St. 
John Baptist's hospitall, which was annexed by the founder 
to his coll. 

Perused the evidences of Queen's coll. and afterwards a 2 5- 
leiger or transcript of all the evidences by the favour of 
D r . Barlow. All done in the dining roome belonging to 
his lodgings. 

Dr. Hen. Deane of New coll. and A. W. waited on the June 30. 
warden of that house, with a desire to see the evidences 

wood, vol. 1. l 



146 LIFE OF WOOD. [l666. 

of that house. His answer was, that he would aske the 
consent of the fellowes. All their evidences are transcribed 
into several folios of parchment or velum. x 

July 30. The warden, with the consent of the fellowes, lent A. W. 

the first leiger-book, containing evidences relating to the 
scite of the coll. their tenements in the city of Oxon. and 
lands in Oxfordshire. The leave was granted 28. Jul. and 
A. W. perused it in his owne study. 

Aug. A. W. y repaired to Dr. Rich. Baylie, president of that 

coll. to do him the favour to let him peruse the evidences 
of his coll. as other societies had done. He refer' d him to 
Mr. Joseph Taylour, a lame fellow of that house, who had 
drawne up a short and trite account of the founder, foun- 
dation, presidents and benefactors thereof, which he lent 
to him, and he transcribed it. z But this contenting him 
not, D r . Pet. Mews, who shortly after succeeded D r . Baylie 
in [the] presidentship, did freely give him leave to peruse 
the evidences. 

About the same time he perused the evidences of Bras- 
nose and other colleges. 

Dec. In the beginning of Dec. he was taken with an ague : 

whereupon taking physick and blooding, his body was 
plucked downe, and much time was lost before he could 
recover himself, and be in a posture to study. 

Feb. 28. Marie "Wood widdow, the mother of A. Wood, died in 

her house against Merton coll. aged 65 or more. 

Mar. 1. Buried by the remaines of her husband in Merton col- 

lege church. 
18. Paid to the collectors of the pole-money, of the parish 

x [The transcript was made by for that sum, in 1657.] 

Will. Ball, one of the yeoman be- y F. repaired to St. John's coll. 

dels, who demanded 800I. for his to Dr. Hearne. 

pains. The college resisted, and z See Wood's MSS. in mus. 

Ball sued in the chancellor's court Ashm. N°. 8490. f. 204. W. & H. 



1667.] LIFE OF WOOD. 147 

of S. Joh. Bapt. wherein he lived, l u . as a gentleman, and 
I s . for his head, towards the carrying on the warr between 
the English and the Dutch at sea. This is set downe here, 
because it was the first tax that A. W. ever paid. He paid 
others afterwards, especially in the raigne of K. Will. 3. 

The bones of Tho. Wood, father to A. W. were taken 1667. 
up, and laid close to those of his wife. Apr. 2. 

Perused the evidences of S. Marie Magd. church, in the May 2, 3. 
North suburb of Oxon. reposed in a vestrie, joyning to 
the church there. a 

He rec d . letters of commendation from D r . Thomas Bar- J une l 3- 
low, prov. of Queen's coll. to Will. Dugdale, esq. Norroy 
K. of armes, to introduce him into the acquaintance of 
the said person, and consequently into the library of S r . 
Joh. Cotton at Westminster. 

He went to London in the stage-coach. His compa- I 4- 
nions were all scholars, amonge whom was Obadiah 
Walker, the senior fellow of University coll. They all lodged 
that night at Beaconsfield, and then A. W. became ac- 
quainted with the said Mr. Walker, and so continued his 
acquaintance til death parted them. 

Early in the morn, being Sunday, A. W. went to the l6 - 
Middle Temple, and found out Mr. Dugdale in the apart- 
ment belonging to Elias Ashmole. He gave him D r . Bar- 
low's letters, and after he had read them, which were to 
introduce him into the Cottonian library, he expressed 
great civility to him. He then appointed him to call on 
him the next morning, and he should have letters from 
him to S r . Jo. Cotton. 

Accordingly he went, and found him in the said apart- 17- 
ment (where he lodged) and discoursed with him concern- 
ing various matters of antiquity. He then gave him his 
letter to S r . Joh. Cotton, wherein was inclosed that of 
a See Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8513. p. 298. W. & H. 

l2 



148 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 

D r . Tho. Barlow. So posting forthwith to Westminster, 
he found S r . Joh. Cotton in his house, joyning almost to 
Westminster hall. He was then practicing on his lute 
with his instructor, and when he had done, he came out 
to him in the hall, and received him kindly, invited him 
to dinner, and directed him to Mr. Rich. Pearson, who 
kept the key of the library. Here was another trouble. 
For the said Mr. Pearson being a lodger in the house of 
E/ob. Scot, a bookseller living in Little Britaine, he was 
forced to walke thither, and much adoe there was to find 
him, but find him at last he did, and by his appointment 
he met him the next day at S r . John Cotton's house, 
where he lent him two MSS. which being run over and 
perused in half a day, yet before he could get two more 
(for no more were to be at a time lent out) it would be a 
whole day (perhaps two) before A. W. could find out the 
said Mr. Pearson, b to let him have more. This was very 
troblesome, and how to help it he could not tell. At 
length an antient gentleman, named Mr. Withrington, 
who was an old servant, and housekeeper when S r . John 
and his family went into the country, seeing to what 
trouble A. W. was put, advised him for the future to 
take his opportunities to come in the long vacation to 
study; for then S r . John being absent for 3 or more 



b Richard Pearson was born at James's. Oct. 8, 1667, he was 

Creak in Norfolk, and educated chosen law-professor at Gresham 

at Eton school, from whence being college, and in 1669 went out Dr. 

elected to King's college Cam- of civil law at Cambridge, where 

bridge, he became fellow of that he died Aug. 5, 1670. He was a 

house. In 1659, he was candidate most excellent scholar, a most ad- 

with Mr. Croune for the Rhetoric mired Grecian, and died, as was 

professorship in Gresham college, reported, a Roman- Catholic, 

which was carried by the latter. See Biograph. Brit. vol. 5. pag. 

In 1662, he was appointed under 33 12 - Ward's Lives of the Gre- 

keeper of the royal library at St. sham Professors. W. & H. 



1667.] LIFE OF WOOD. 149 

months together, he did usually leave the key of his library 
in his hands. Afterwards he took his advice, and went to 
London in the long vacations, and then Mr. Withrington 
being constantly in the house, he would conduct A. W. 
into the very next roome joyning to the library, where he 
would bring to him what books he pleased, which he 
pointed at in the catalogue. So that spending there 9 
houres in a day constantly for a fortnight or more toge- 
ther, he at length did effect his business. 

This Mr. Pearson (who- was a learned man, and yonger Jun. 21. 

brother to c Dr. Pearson, bp. of Chester) being J^ath'et 

seldome to be found, A. W. went with letters of commend- Fasti 0x_ 

on. under 

ation from D r . Rob. Say, provost of Oriel coll. (which he the year 
brought with him from Oxon.) to the lodgings of Mr. * 
Will. Prynne in Lincoln's inne, chief keeper of the records 
in the tower of London, to the end that he would intro- 
duce him among the records there, for the carrying on of 
a publick work, Mr. Prynne received him with old fashion 
compliments, such as were used in the raigne of K. Jam. I. 
and told him, he should see what he desir'd, and seemed 
to be glad, that such a yong man as he (A. W.) was (for 
so he caFd him) should have inclinations towards venerable 
antiquity, &c. He told him then, that if he would call 
upon him the next morning at 8 of the clock, he would 
conduct him to the tower, for he had business then to do 
there, being about to print another book. 

A. W. went precisely at the time appointed, and found Jun. 22. 
Mr. Prynne in his black taffaty-cloak, edg'd with black 
lace at the bottom. They went to the tower directly thro 
the city, then lying in ruins, (occasioned by the grand 
conflagration that hapned in 1666) but by his meeting 
with several citizens, and prating with them, it was about 

c L. Dr. John Pearson. Hearne. 



150 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 

10 of the clock before they could come to the same place. 
He there shewed A. W. a place where he should sit and 
write, shewed him the Repertorium, and spoke to Jen- 
nings, the reacher of the records, that he should let him 
have any record, that he should point at in the said Re- 
pertorium. After that, he conducted A. W. into the white 
tower, where he was strangely surprized, to see d such vast 
number of charters and rolls, that were there reposed &c. 
He found Mr. Dugdale in the office where he was to sit, 
who was running over a course of rolls, in order to the 
drawing up and finishing either his 3 d . vol. of Monasticon 
Anglicanum or his Baronage : and so long as A. W. stayd 
in London, which were but a few dayes, he spent them 
there in his company, and at 12 of the clock every day 
they dined together at a cook's house within the Tower, 
and somtimes had Jennings (a boon blade) among them. 

The same day at night, A. W. sent letters by the post 
to D r . Tho. Barlow, to let him know, what he had done at 
London, and to give him thanks for the fatherly favours 
he did unto him. 
29. He returned to Oxon. It was the first time that A. W. 

was at London ; and the truth is, his time being short, he 
only took measures, what to doe at his next going to that 
place. 
July 18. He began to peruse the evidences, rent-rolls, &c. in 

Ch. Ch. treasury, over the cloyster there, and continued 
so doing all the remaining part of July, all August, and 
part of Sept. For there was work enough for a curious 
and critical antiquary, that would hold him tugg for a 
whole yeare. There are a great many evidences which 
belonged to St. Frideswyde's priory, but no rent-rolls of 
their lands and tenements. There are many evidences 
and rent-rolls that belonged to Osney abbey, and innu- 
d Sic. F. such a vast. Hearne. 



1667.] LIFE OF WOOD. 151 

merable broken writings and rolls, which belonged to the 
priories and nunneries that were dissolved by the meanes 
of card. Wolsey, towards the erection of his college in 
Oxon. Bnt this the reader must know, that the said col- 
lege being not setled by law when the cardinal fell, all the 
lands, which were appointed for the said coll. came into 
the king's hands. So that between the cardinal's fall, and 
the settlement of the college by the king, which was 3 
years at least, most of the lands of the said dissolved prio- 
ries and nunneries, being sold to, or beg'd of the king by, 
hungry courtiers, who had only the king's grant for them, 
without the antient evidences belonging to them, those 
evidences remained still in Cardinal, now Ch. Ch. coll. 
And because the members thereof have not the lands, 
which those evidences concern, they take no care of the 
evidences, but lay them in a by place exposed to weather, 
and thereby are much perish' d, and become not legible. 
From these evidences did A. W. furnish S r . Will. Dugdale 
with many things, which he inserted in his third vol. of 
Monasticon Anglicanum, viz. with those four evidences in 
p. 11. concerning Wallingford : with eleven others in p. 
13, 14, 15. concerning Littlemore nunnery, within the 
precincts of Sandford in Oxfordshire, which by a mistake 
Sr. William hath added to Sandford in Berks : with 4 
copies in p. 30, 31. concerning Horkesley, a cell to the 
abbey of Tefford: with a copie in p. 77. b. concerning 
Otteham priory : with the charter concerning the hospital 
or Ginges in Essex, otherwise called Gynge-Montegney, 
and with many others, which he thought not fit to be 
published. 

John Willis, yonger brother to Dr. Thorn. Willis the 
famous physitian, was then chapter-clerk of Ch. Church ; 
and he then designing to make a repertorie of records be- 
longing to the said church, made choice of that time to do 



152 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 

it, to the end that he might have the assistance of A. W. 
which he freely imparted, and demonstrated to him from 
several evidences, what encroachments that church had suf- 
fered in many places in Oxon. on their lands and tenements, 
which formerly belonged to S f . Frideswyde and Osney. 
Au £- 31- John Aubrey, of Easton-Piers in the parish of Kington 

S. Michael in Wiltsh. was in Oxon. with Edw. Forest a 
bookseller, living against Alls. coll. to buy books. He 
then saw lying on the stall Notitia Academics. Oxoniensis ; 
and asking, who the author of that book was ? he answered, 
the report was, that one Mr. Anth. Wood, of Merton coll. 
was the author, but was not. Whereupon Mr. Aubrey, a 
pretender to antiquities, having been contemporary to A. 
Wood's elder brother in Trin. coll. and well acquainted 
with him, he thought, that he might be as well acquainted 
with A. W. himself. Whereupon repairing to his lodgings, 
and telling him who he was, he got into his acquaintance, 
talked to him about his studies, and offered him what as- 
sistance he could make, in order to the completion of the 
work that he was in hand with. Mr. Aubrey was then in 
a sparkish garb, came to towne with his man and two 
horses, spent high, and flung out A. W. at all recknings. 
But his estate of 7001i. per. an. being afterwards sold, and 
he reserving nothing of it to himself, hVd afterwards in a 
very sorry condition, and at length made shift to rub out 
by hanging on Edm. Wyld, esq; living in Blomesbury 
neare London, on James earle of Abendon, whose first 
wife was related to him, and on S r . Joh. Aubrey, his kins- 
man, living somtimes in Glamorganshire, and somtimes 
at Borstall neare Brill in Bucks. He was a shiftless person, 
roving and magotieheaded, and somtimes little better than 
erased. And being exceedingly credulous, would stuff his 
many letters sent to A. W. with e folliries, and misinform- 
e Sic. Hearne. 



1667.] life of wood. 153 

ations, which somtimes would guid him into the paths of 
err our. f 

f From a passage in the life of obliged to each other for their mu- 

John Aubrey, esq ; prefixed to the tual literary communications, their 

Natural History and Antiquities friendship was neither firm nor 

of Surrey, the reader might ima- lasting. A particular account of 

gine that the acquaintance between Mr. Aubrey is given in the life 

him and Mr. A. W. commenced above mentioned, and in the Bio- 

at an early period, but the account graphia Brit, to which it is only 

given here evidently contradicts necessary to add a more accurate 

that supposition. It is certain also, detail of the MSS. which he de- 

that, although they were greatly posited in the museum at Oxford. 

i. The Natural History of Wiltshire : 1685. 2 vol. 

2. Architectonica Sacra .• a curious MS. but unfinished. 

3. A Perambulation of Surrey : much of this is used in the printed 
work. 

4. An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical and 
other Writers. 

5. An Interpretation of Villare Anglicanum. 

6. The life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury .- made use of by Dr. 
Blackburne, in Vita Th. Hobbes Auctarium. 

7. An Idea of Education of Young Gentlemen. 

8. Designatio de Easton- Piers in com. Wilts 

Per me 
{heu) infortunatum Johannem Awbrey 
R. S. Socium. 
Hoc erat in Votis modus Agri non ita magnus 
Hortus ubi, et Tecto vicinus jugis Aqucefons, 
Et paulum Silvce super hisforet. 
Anno Dni. 1669. 
N. B. It consists of several views of the house, gardens, and environs of 
Easton Piers, drawn in a coarse manner and colouring, but pleasing 
and expressive. 

9. A Volume of Letters and other Papers of E. Ashmole's relating 
chiefly to Dr. Dee and Sir Edw. Kelley. 

10. Two Volumes of Letters from eminent Persons to John Aubrey, 
esq j W. &H. 

[11. Lives of eminent literary and political Characters, addressed to 
Anthony a Wood, and collected for his use. In three volumes. Most 
of these have been printed in an appendix to Letters transcribed from 
the originals in the Bodleian library, 2 vols. Oxford, 18 13. 8°.] 

[In 1845 Mr. John Britton, dertakings, (to whom be it ever 
F. A. S. a veteran in literary un- remembered we owe the introduc- 



154 LIFE OF WOOD. [1667. 

Sept. Perus'd the evidences of S. Joh. Baptist coll. by the 

favour of D r . Mews the president, who treated A. W. with 
more freeness and libertie, than any other head of a house. 
The keys of the tower over the gate were freely pnt into 
his hand, and he perused the evidences partly in the tower, 
and partly in a chamber on the south side of it, which 
then belonged to Edw. Bernard, one of the proctors of the 
university : for thro his chamber was the passage up to the 
tower. There are many evidences belonging to Walton man- 
nor, and the mannour of S. Giles, both in the north suburb 
of Oxon. which evidences had belonged to Osney, Godstow, 
&c. as having been formerly lords of those mannours. 

Whereas in the month of May 1667 A. W. had leave 
given to him by the parishioners of S. Marie Magdalen 
parish, to peruse their evidences, reposed in their church, 
he did then find among them a register of paper, contain- 
ing (1) marriages from 1574 to 1591. (2) christnings 
from 1577 to 1591. (3) burialls from 1574 to 1591 ; which 
register being worn, torn, and hardly legible, A. W. did 
transcribe on Dutch paper, and caused it to be bound 
with a past-board cover and velum over it. Which register, 

Mar. 24. with the old, he delivered to the parishioners, the old to 
be laid up in the chest, the transcript to be kept in the 
clark's hands, &c. s 
T ^ 68 -_ Matthew Hutton, h M. A. fellow of Brasn. college, and 

^ tion of a better taste and execution ever is of interest respecting Au- 
in the embellishment of architec- brey and his collections, since he 
tural and antiquarian publications,) justly claims, and will undoubted- 
printed for the Wiltshire Society, ly obtain, a fuller notice in any 
a life of Aubrey, derived chiefly continuation to these Athene.] 
from his own papers; and in 1847 g See Catalogue of Wood's 
the same editor published in 4 . MSS. in mus. Ashm. N°. 8524. 
Aubrey's Natural History of 'Wilts, W. & H. 

with notes and wood-cuts. It is h [" 1711. June 27 died Dr. 

unnecessary to do more than refer Matthew Hutton, rector of Ayn- 

to Mr. Britton's books, for what- hoe in Northamptonshire, and 



l668.] LIFE OF WOOD. 155 

A. W. went to Borstall neare Brill in Bucks, the habita- 
tion of the lady Penelope Dinham, being quite altered 
since A. W. was there in 1646. For whereas then it was 
a garrison, with high bulwarks about it, deep trenches 
and pallisadoes, now it had pleasant gardens about it, and 
several sets of trees well growne. The errand of A. W. 
there was to see the leiger of the family, first for the satis- 
fying of himself, as to matters to be extracted thence for 
his book, about to be published, and secondly to extract 
thence what he could find for the 3d. vol. of Monast. An- 
glicanum; which were the copies of some charters that are 
printed in the said 3 d . vol. p. 18, containing the hermitage 
of Muswell in the parish of Piddington neare Borstall. 
This leiger-book, written in parchment, containes the evi- 
dences and other matters concerning the lands, pertaining 
to the lords of Borstall, lying at Borstall, and in Bucks, 
and Oxfordshire, and was made and written by the care 
of Edm. Rede, esq;, lord of the mannor of Borstall, temp, 

formerly fellow of Bras. He was land, &c. &c. to which he had 
a learned antiquary, but never made an index, MS. Harl. 7521. 
published anything, tho' his col- Wanley, whose estimate of their 
lections, which are large and cu- value differs widely from Hearne's, 
rious, have been made use of by says, "my lord bought his (Hut- 
divers of our English antiquaries, ton's) papers at a very dear rate," 
and are often quoted. They are but Humfrey perhaps wanted to 
written in a great many small enhance his own merit with his 
volumes, but how disposed of I master, in the restoration of some 
do not yet hear." Hearne's MS. papers lent him by Dr. Hutton, 
Collections, vol. xxix. p. 17. He which he gave up to lord Oxford, 
afterwards writes : " The earl of after the death of the original 
Oxford bought his collections for owner. See Harl. Catalogue, 3. 
an inconsiderable sum." Hutton's 534. It may be reasonably sup- 
manuscripts are now in the British posed that Hutton's love for anti- 
museum, comprising between for- quities was much strengthened by 
ty and fifty volumes of extracts his acquaintance with Wood and 
from episcopal and other regis- these agreeable rambles to places 
ters, documents from the Tower, of historical celebrity in the neigh- 
epitaphs in various parts of Eng- bourhood.] 



156 LIFE OF WOOD. [1668. 

H. 6. In the beginning of this book is represented in 
colours the mannour house of B or stall, with a moat round 
it, and the lord of the mannour (Johannes filius Nigelli) 
issuing out of his house to meet a certain king and his 
retinew. And at some distance from the house, the lord 
kneels downe to the king, and presents him with a boare's 
head on the top of a sword or spear e. This, as the tradi- 
tion of the family goeth, is an allusion to the custome of 
the mannour (Boristall) to present the king with a boare's 
head, because the said mannour was in antient time, when 
'twas wooddy, a stall or den for wild boares. 

Between 9 and 10 of the clock at night, being an hour 
or two after supper, there was seen by them M. H. and 
A. W. and those of the family of Borstall, a Draco volans 
fall from the sky. It made the place so light for a time, 
that a man might see to read. It seemed to A. W. to be 
as long as Allsaints steeple in Oxon. being long and nar- 
row : and when it came to the lower region, it vanished 
into sparkles, and, as some say, gave a report. Great 
raines and inundations followed &c. 

M. Hutton and A. W. walked from Borstall to see some 
churches, and what of matter of antiquity wee could find 
in them, and about 12 of the clock they arrived at Notley, 
in the parish of Long-Crendon in Bucks, to see the ruins 
of the abbey there, originally built for Black Canons. Mr. 
N orris Lenton, the owner of it (from the family of the 
lord Norris) was an antient bachelaur, and had formerly 
been a great traveller, and being a person of good breeding 
and a scholar, he received them with great curtesie. They 
met there capt. - - - - Sanders of Hadnam, and after 
dinner they viewed the ruins, which shewed that it had 
been a stately place, and therefore the spectacle was more 
sad &c. In one of the windows of a lower roome were 
the armes of Stafford, duke of Bucks. When A. W. went 



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to school at Thame, he usually retired to this place to 
gather nuts, having been then great plenty, and more in 
antient time, which caused it to be called Nutley, that is, 
the place of nuts. 

Rec d . from D r . Savage, master of Balliol coll. his book May 21. 

Sgg before 

lately printed, entit. Balliofergus &c. in requitall for what un d e r the 
A. W. had done in order to it's composition. In the said yeare l66 °* 
book, p. 28. he calls A. W. "his friend." 

He went to the house of S r . George Croke', lord of 3°- 
Water-stoke neare to Thame in Oxfordshire, where he 



1 [Sir Geo. Croke was the son 
of Henry Croke, D. D. rector of 
Waterstock, who died in 1642, 
and was buried in the chancel of 
his own church. His uncle sir 
Geo. the judge, left him 100Z. to- 
wards his maintenance and edu- 
cation. His wife was Jane, one 
of fourteen children of sir Richard 
Onslow ; she died in 1676, leaving 
two daughters only, so that on the 
death of sir George in 1680 or 
1 68 1, the trustees sold the Water- 
stock estate, as Wood here re- 
counts, to the Ashhursts. Con- 
cerning this family I find the fol- 
lowing particulars in Delafield's 
History of Great Milton, among 
Gough's MSS. in the Bodleian : 

" The original of the family in 
Oxfordshire was Henry Ashurst, 
esq. a woollen draper by trade, 
and a citizen and alderman of 
London. He was born at Ash- 
urst in Lancashire, being the son 
of a gentleman there seated, by 
Cassandra, daughter of John 



Bradshaw, of Bradshaw in that 
county. He had it seems an elder 
brother, - - Ashurst, esq. who 
was grandfather to Thomas Henry 
Ashurst, esq. successor to sir 
Henry Ashurst the younger at 
Waterstock. Henry Ashurst, the 
alderman, married Judith the dau. 
of one Mr. Risby, and had with 
her about 1500Z. fortune, a very 
considerable portion as money 
then went. By her he had four 
sons *. The first a member of the 
long pari, went a commissioner 
into Scotland, had the clerke of 
the peace's place for Lancashire 
bestowed on him, and 1000Z. in 
money, given him by the leaders 
of that party. The second son 
was a colonel, but on which of 
the contending sides, I find not. 
The third was sir Henry, the 
senior, of Waterstoke, and the 
fourth sir Will. Ashurst, who in 
1 69 1 was sheriff of London and 
Middlesex, and in 1693 lord 
mayor, and at length colonel of 



* [He died in 1680. Richard Baxter preached his funeral sermon, which he 
printed under the title of Faithful Souls shall be with Christ. Lond. 1681. 40.] 



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[1668. 



found a great diversion, in perusing and taking the armes 
and monuments in the church, and in the mannour house 
belonging to the said S r . Georg. A. W. lodged, by the ap- 
pointment of the said S r . George, k in an antient rome 
called "the king's rome/' because K. H. 6. had lodged 
therein, and 'twas, as he remembers, at the end of the 
dining-rome. The mannour of Water-stoke S r . George 
Croke a judg had purchased of the Caves \ and having an 



the white regiment of the city- 
trained bands,, and chief commis- 
sioner in the excise. He dyed in 
1720, having been one of the re- 
presentatives of the city in the 
parliament dissolved 17 10. * * * 
Alderman Henry Ashurst pur- 
chased Emington of the family of 
Hamden, which had before be- 
longed to the Scope's, and dying 
left it to his son Henry, who was 
first knighted, and afterwards 
raised to the degree of baronet.* 
He procured the manour of Wa- 
terstoke by sale of the Croke's, 
and married Diana the 5 daugh- 
ter of William lord Paget, by his 
lady Frances, one of the daugh- 
ters of Henry Rich, earl of Hol- 
land, beheaded soon after the 
murder of king Charles I. by the 
same violent hands that cut off 
his royal master. By this lady 
sir Henry had two children, viz. 
a daughter Frances, so named 
from her noble grandmother, mar- 
ried to sir Richard Allen, bart. 
seated at Somerby house in Suf- 
folk, to whom she bore several 



sons and a daughter married to 
Thomas Henry Ashurst, esq. of 
Lancashire, whom we shall find 
heir of Waterstock. The third 
son was sir Henry Ashurst, junior, 
who married Elizabeth, daughter 
of sir Tho. Draper of Sunninghill 
near Windsor. * * There was no 
surviving issue by this marriage, 
so that the estates at Emington, 
Waterstoke, &c. upon the death 
of sir Henry came by entail to 
Tho. Henry Ashurst, esq. who 
had married the niece of sir Henry 
and daughter of sir Richard 
Allen as aforesaid."] 

k See Wood's MSS. in mus. 
Ashm. N°. 8548. W. & H. 

1 [Before the year 1615 sir Geo. 
Croke purchased of sir William 
Cave the estate at Waterstock. 
It had come into the Cave family 
by the marriage of sir Tho. Cave, 
brother to sir George Croke's 
grandmother, Prudence Cave, 
with Elizabeth Danvers, daughter 
and heiress of sir John Danvers 
of Waterstock. Sir Alex. Croke's 
Hist, of the Croke Family, p. 568.] 



* [Sir H. Ashhurst was the tried friend of Baxter : he was executor to him 
as well as to Boyle, no inconsiderable mark of confidence in two persons of 
undoubted celebrity.] 



l668.] LIFE OF WOOD. 159 

only son, who was a sot or fool, or both, would not leave 
Water- stoke to him, m but to the son of his brother (a 
clergy man) named sir Georg Croke, before mentioned, 
som times fellow of Alls. coll. and afterwards high sherriff 
of Oxfordshire ; but after the death of his wife (who was 
an Onslow of Surry) he ran into debt, retired to London, 
followed women, and ruin'd himself. Some yeares after 
his death (which, hapned in n 1681) the heir and executor, 
or those that were intrusted with the estate, sold Water- 
stock to - - - Ashhurst a trader of London, who pulling 
downe all the old house, built this that stands of brick, 
an. 1695.° 

Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts, esq ;. having published, July, 
about the beginning of this yeare, A Catalogue of Authors 
that had written of Heraldry, he sent A. W. a printed copie 
of it, with a desire that he would add more authors to 
them. Whereupon interleaving the book, he added to it 
as much as came to half that book that was printed this 
yeare ; which being done, he sent them away in the be- 
ginning of July this yeare, and afterwards more as they 
came to his hands. See more in Octob. 1674. 

Rec d . a letter from Cornwall, that the body of a giant Aug. 
of 10 foot long was there lately found in digging or plow- 
ing. Dr. Rich. Trevour had also a letter thence, or else 
from Devonshire, that attested the like matter. 

A. W. went to Cooper's hill, in the parish of Brock- Sept. i, 

m [Certain it is that Waterstock no proof that he enjoyed any part 

was bequeathed to his son Thomas of his property. Croke's History 

and to his heirs by any other wife of the Croke Family, p. 605.] 

than Anne, so that we may sup- n In Ath. Oxon. 1680. 

pose he had made an improvident ° [Taken down by Sir W. H. 

marriage. It is however probable Ashhurst one of H. M. justices of 

that the father survived the son, the King's Bench, who erected the 

or that the son outlived his father present large and excellent house 

for a very short space, for there is of stone about the year 1787.] 



160 LIFE OF WOOD. [1668. 

worth, 4 miles distant (towards Oxon.) from the city of 
Glocester, in the company of his acquaintance Tim. 
Nourse, M. A. and fellow of University coll. This Cooper's 
hill is a lone-house, own'd by their acquaintance ° Joh. 
Theyer, gent, who had then a very fair library of MSS. re- 
posed in a roome, which he had built to retaine them. The 
next day Mr. Nourse went forward to see some of his rela- 
tions, and A. W. set himself to peruse the MSS. which the 
said Mr. Theyer had been neare 40 yeares in gathering, 
and did catalogue many of them. 
4. Mr. Nourse returning to us the day before, wee went 

this day to Glocester, where we saw the cathedral and 
monuments therein, and several parts of the city; after- 
wards wee went to the taverne with one or two of the 
choire, drank a glass of wine and had a song, and so when 
'twas neare dark, we returned to Cooper's hill. 
7. Returned to Oxon. brought a MS. or two with him, 

and others were sent after him by a carrier to peruse ; 
which afterwards he returned. 
12, 13. Took physic and blooded to prevent the comming of an 
ague. 
Dec 10. His acquaintance Rob. Dormer, of Rousham in Oxford- 

shire, esq. did take to wife Mrs. Anne Cotterel, one of 
the daughters of S r . Charles Cotterel, Mr. of the ceremo- 
nies. This Rob. Dormer, when he was a yong man, lived 
very high in London, in the time of Oliver, and he and S r . 
Will. Sedley, elder brother to S r . Charles, did strive who 
should out-vie each other in gallantry, and in splendid 
coaches, but afterwards marrying Catherine, the daughter 
of Mountague earl of Lindsey, which was his hrst wife, he 
took up, and grew rich. 

Went with Franc. Dryer (an outlander, borne at Breme) 
now a sojournour in Oxon. for the sake of the library, to 
See [p. 33] above, under the year 1646. Hearne. 



1669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 161 

S r . Georg Croke's liouse at Water-stoke, to keep part of 
the Christmas, and continued there till 2 of Jan. 

S r . Edw. Bysshe, Clarenceux king of armes, was at theMar.18,19. 
Crowne inn near Carfax in Oxon. in order to visit part of 
the county of Oxon. being part of the province belonging 
to Clarenceux. A. W. was with him several times, eate 
and drank with him, and had several discourses with him 
concerning armes and armory, which he understood well, 
but he found him nice and supercilious. Few gentlemen 
appeared, because at that time there was a horse-race at 
Brackley. Such that came to him, he entred if they 
pleased. If they did not enter, he was indifferent, so the 
visitation was a trite thing. Many looked on this matter, 
as a trick to get money. A little before his departure he 
gave A. W. a dash of his office, viz. he entred 3 or more 
descents of his family, a copie of which he hath lying by 
him. Afterwards S r . Edward having a coach and four 
horses with him, he went to Banbury. There were only 
with him old - - - Wither a herald painter of London 
and his clerk (Gregorie) the former of which tricfd the 
coates, the other entred them in the book of visitation. 
He the said S r . Edw. Bysshe was in Oxon. againe in 
1675, to make an end of his visitation, but A. W. was 
then absent. 

By virtue of a ticket, some dayes before put into the 1669. 
hands of A. W. he went to the Guildhall of Oxon. to par- ^ p C ^; IL 
ticipate of a feast, there kept for the natives of Oxon. 

They all met at 9 of the clock in the morn, in the said 
hall, and marched thence very orderly (in number about 
440) downe the High street, with a minister before them, 
had a sermon in the church of S. Pet. in the East, preached 
by Rob. Field, M. A. of Trin. coll. borne in Grope lane in 
S l . Marie's parish, and retiring to the hall againe, had a 
noble entertainment ; which done, there was a collection 

wood, vol. 1. M 



162 



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[1669. 



This was 
done in imi- 
tation of 
Berkshire 
men, who 
kept their 
feast on 
Candlemas 
day going 
before., Joh. 
Lamb being 
then mayor. 
26. 



made to bind out two or more boyes apprentices. This 
was the first time that the natives of Oxon. had a feast, 
being begun and put forward by - - - - Paynton the 
townclerk, a native of Oxon. 

Munday was the first day that the flying-coach went 
from Oxon. to London in one day. A. W. went in the 
same coach, having then a boot on each side. Among 
the six men that went, M r . Rich. Holloway, a counsellour 
of Oxon. (afterwards a judge) was one. They then (ac- 
cording to the vice-chancellour's order, P stuck up in all 



P [From the Oxford Almanack 
for the year 1692. Printed at 
Oxford in that year, small 8°. 
An order for preventing abuses and 
irregularities in carriage. 

1 . For the carriage of one hun- 
dred weight of goods, from the 
feast of All Saints, to the feast of 
the Annunciation, or Lady- day, 
four shillings. And for the rest 
of the year 3s. 6d. 

2. For the carriage of any per- 
son by waggon, four shillings. 

3. For the carriage of the 
greatest parcel, (all being to be 
esteemed parcels und. one quarter 
of an hundred weight,) one shil- 
ling, and so less in proportion for 
those that are less : except that for 
a single hat and case, nine pence. 

4. For the carriage of any bur- 
den, not exceeding one hundred 
weight nor less than one quarter of 
an hundred weight, from the shop 
or warehouse, where the goods 
were unladen, unto the owner's 
habitation or shop, threepence, 
and for a parcel one penny. 

5. All letters directed to scho- 



lars shall be left at the butteries 
of their respective colleges or 
halls : and for the delivery of 
every such letter, shall be given 
only one halfpenny loaf, as was 
accustomed, but if any carriage 
comes with a letter, nothing shall 
be given for the delivery of that 
letter. 

That all stage-coaches travel- 
ling between the said university 
and the city of London in two days 
shall respectively set forth from 
Oxford at, or before, the hour of 
nine by S^ Mary's clock; and 
shall in like manner set forth from 
London, so as to pass by S*. 
Giles's church in the suburbs, at 
or before the same hour, by the 
clock of the said church : and in 
all other points the carriers are to 
take care, that passengers be con- 
veyed to their respective stages, 
safe and in a reasonable time. 

Carriage by water is to be esti- 
mated after the rate of one shil- 
ling for every hundred weight. 

From our Lady-day unto Mi- 
chaelmas the coaches go every 



1669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 163 

public places) entred into the coach at the tavern dore 
against Alls. coll. precisely at 6 of the clock in the morn- 
ing, and at 7 at night they were all set downe in their inn 
at London. The occasion of A. Wood's going to London 
was to carry on his studies in the Cottonian library and 
elsewhere. 

Cosmo de Medicis, prince of Tuscany, entertaind by the May 3. 
members of the universitie of Oxon. 

A. W. returned from London, and soon after collected 7- 
from his friends the particulars of the prince's entertain- 
ment. 

D r . Rich. Pearson of Cambridge, and Mr. Tho. Hyde 21. 
the chief library -keeper, gave a visit to A. W. A. W. en- 
tertained them at the taverne against Alls. coll. See 
before, in the yeare 1667. 

A. W. was dismist from his usual and constant diet, June 26. 
which for many yeares he had taken in the house where he 
was borne, and then lived, by the rudeness and barbarity 
of a brutish woman, of which she afterwards repented, 
when too late. A. W. was put to his shifts, a great deale 
of trouble, and knew not what to doe, because his dismiss 
was suddaine, whereas there should have been a month's 
warning at least. He was ashamed to go to a publick house, 
because he was a senior master, and because his relations 
lived in Oxon. and to go to Merton coll. (which he had 
left, as to his diet, for several yeares before) he was much 
resolved in himself against it. He had a name in the 
buttery-book there, and took bread and beere when he 
could go no where else for meat. By his much fasting, 

day in the week between Oxford coaches go out every Monday, 
and London, and carry passengers Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 
in one day, every passenger pay- and carry passengers in two days, 
ing ten shillings. But after Mi- each passenger paying ten shil- 
chaelmas unto our Lady- day the lings.] 

m2 



164 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 

and drinking more than usually, the whole course of his 
body was changed. Weaknesses came into several of his 
joynts, especially in the leggs, and great noises in his eares: 
and in the next yeare he found a deafness, first in his 
right, and afterwards in his left, eare, which continued 
more or less till death. This disaster, A. W. look'd upon 
as the first and greatest misery of his life. It made him 
exceeding melancholy and more retired ; was also at great 
charg in taking physick and slops, to drive the noises out 
of his eares, and D r . Joh. Lamphire took a great deal of 
paines about them, but in vaine. You will heare more 
hereafter, what trouble and charge A. W. was put to, to 
obtaine his hearing. 

Jul. 6. Elias Ashmole esq. came to Oxon. to spend some time 

there, and to see the solemnity of the great Act approach- 
ing. He lodged in the Grey-hound inn without the East- 
gate of Oxon. and then he very kindly sent <i of A. W. to 
come to him, purposely to deliver commendations to him, 
from his father in law Will. Dugdale, Norroy K. of armes. 
He continued in Oxon. 7 or 8 dayes and A. W. attended 
him every day in seeing many curiosities, as the painting 
in Alls. coll. chappel, the paynting in Magd. coll. chap- 
pell, and the paynting in the theater. They were often 
in the physick garden with Jacob Bobart the keeper, (an 
old acquaintance of Mr. Ashmole) who shewd them many 
choice plants, herbs, grafts, and other curiosities, to Mr. 
Ashmole' s great content. 
9. The dedication of the Theater for a learned use. After 

which followed a very great and splendid Act. 

Aug. 24. A. W. went to London in the flying-coach, having be- 
fore been nominated by the proctors one of the 12 masters 
of arts, to attend the solemnity of the installation of James 

1 L./or. Hearne. 



1669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 165 

duke of Ormonde to the chancellorship of the universitie 
of Oxon. 

A. W. went abont 8 of the clock in the morning by 25. 
Whitehall towards S r . John Cotton's house neare West- 
minster-hall, to borrow some MSS. from his library, to 
carry on the grand work of the Hist, and Antiq. of the 
Univ. of Oxon. He met neare Whitehall gate with D r . 
Joh. Fell, D r . Rich. Allestrie, D r . Tho. Yate, &c. comming 
from prayers, as it seems, at Whitehall, who told him, 
that at 12 of the clock of the said day, he was to meet 
the Oxford scholars then in London, to dine with his 
grace the archb. of Canterbury (Sheldon) at Lambeth. 
They told him then, that if he met by chance with any 
Oxford doctors or masters, between that time and 12 of 
the clock, he should tell them of it, which he did. After- 
wards he borrowed certaine MSS. and at 12 of the clock 
he passed over the water to Lambeth with D r . Yate, proc- 
tor Alsop and others. When they came there, the archb. 
was at the councill table at Whitehall with the king, and 
did not returne till one of the clock. In the meane time 
the doctors and masters entertained themselves with pic- 
tures and other rarities in the gallery and had divers dis- 
courses. At length the archb. came among them with D r . 
Fell, and at their first entrie into the gallery, A. W. being 
next to the dore, D r . Fell said to the archbishop : " If it 
please your grace, there is a master of arts " (pointing to 
A. W.) " that you must take notice of. He hath done the 
universitie a great deal of honour by a book that he hath 
written." Whereupon the archb. comming towards him, 
A. W. kneeled downe, and he blessed him, and laying his 
hand upon his shoulder when he was risen, spoke very 
kindly to him, and told him, that " he was glad that there 
was such a person in the universitie, that had a generous 
mind to such a work." He bid him to proceed in his 



166 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 

studies, that " he should be encouraged, and want nothing 
that was equal to his deserts." 

Afterwards they all went downe into the common hall, 
where were divers bishops and persons of qualitie, and 
others that thrust in, besides the Oxford scholars that 
dined there. There was a high table went cross the 
upper end of the hall, and tables on each side, as in 
college halls. S r . Leolin Jenkins being then there, he 
laid his hands on A. W. and made him sit at the high 
table (whereas he should have r sit at one of the side 
tables with his contemporaries) between him and Joh. 
Cook, an under secretarie to the L d . Arlington, one of the 
chief secretaries of state. He was then exceedingly ca- 
ressed by all learned and good men, &c. 

Aug. 26. James duke of Ormonde was installed chancellour of 
the universitie at Worcester house in the Strand neare 
London. After which followed a most noble banquet. 
A. W. was there, and complemented by many, &c. 
29. With Mr. Hugh Cressey at Somerset house. He dis- 

coursed with him, but found not his expectation satisfied. 
He was then one of the chaplaines to qu. Catherine. 

Thence he was conducted by Will. Rogers of Line. Inn 
to M r . Davenport, commonly called Sancta Clara, who 
also had an apartment in the same house. He was then, 
or had been lately, confessor to qu. Catherine. He found 
him a complaisant man, very free and discoursive. Which 
made him, when he went afterwards to London, to visit 
him often. 

Sept. 6. With Mr. Cressey againe, and discoursed of divers 

matters relating to antiquities, &c. 

Oct. 17. Joh. Curteyne, M. A. somtimes fellow of Line. coll. 
was buried in the church at Borough in Lincolnshire. 

r Sic. Hbarne. 



T669.] LIFE OF WOOD. 167 

He had been physitian to A. W. after Rich. Lower went 
to London to practice physick, which was in 1666* 

The delegacy for printing of books met between 8 and Oct. 22. 
9 in the morn, in - - - - Hall's honse behind and north- 
ward of the schooles, at which were present D r . Pet. Mews 
the vice-chancellour, D r . Joh. Fell, D r . Tho. Yate, D r . 
Th. Barlow, Obad. Walker, Nat. Alsop proctor, &c. They 
sent for A. W. to come unto them, and told him, that 
whereas he had taken a great deal of paines in writing the 
Hist, and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon. they would for 
his paines give him an lOOli. for his copie, conditionally, 
that he would suffer the book to be translated into 
Latine, for the honour of the university in forreigne coun- 
tries, and that he would take more paines in recovering 
transcripts of original charters which he cites in his book, 
as also verba ipsa, the words themselves, of old MS. au- 
thors &c. to be put in Italic character, and thereby add to 
the authority of the book. These proposalls, tho' they 
were suddain to the author, yet he granted them their 
desires. They, it seems, had before been informed of the 
worth of the book by Mr. Obad. Walker, and Mr. Will. 
Stone the principal of New Inn, who some time before 
had been at the lodging of A. W. to see and peruse the 
book. 

A. W. took a compleat catalogue of all the MS S. in D r .Nov. 
Tho. Barlow's library in Queen's coll. They were then in 
number at least 76. besides bundells of writings concern- 
ing differences between the universitie and citie of Oxon. 
concerning Hedington in Oxfordshire, found among the 
papers of Mr. Joh. Hearne a lawyer, besides divers papers 
and bundells that had belonged to D r . Usher primate of 
Ireland, and the copie of divers modern sermons preached 
by eminent divines of the ch. of England. 

His acquaintance and deare friend Henry Foulis, bac. Dec. 24, 



168 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 

See Ath. of div. and sub-rector of Lincolne coll. died between 4 and 

"FT* "R^AST'T 

Oxon. 5 of the clock in the afternoone. He left behind him a 
under the j ar p. s tudie of books : which being afterwards to be sold, 

year 1669. D ." ' ' 

A. W. did, for the most part, make a catalogue of them, 
at the desire of Tho. Law and Joh. a Court, masters of 
arts and fellows of the said coll. 
Jan. Upon the desire of D r . Bathurst, president of Trinity 

college, A. W. did communicate to him part of the Hist, 
and Antiquities of the Universitie of Oocon. but he being a 
most false person, did shew several parts of it to other 
persons, particularly to Anth. Etterick, somtimes a com- 
moner of Trin. coll. who accidentally came to give him a 
visit, who finding a passage therein, which reflected, as he 
thought, on the credit of Dr. Joh. Bidgood, a physitian of 
the city of Exeter, he did forthwith acquaint him by let- 
ters. Et hinc lachrymte, &c. Sever all complaining letters 
he sent to D r . Bathurst, to have that passage expurg'd, 
wherein the author was very slightly mentiond, &c. See 
Fasti Oxon. under the year 1660. He the said D r . 
Bathurst did also shew to D r . Joh. Wallis the memoire of 
his election to the custodie of the archives under the yeare 
1657, as Dr. Wallis did afterwards intimate to the author; 
but when the Hist, or Annalls of the said University were 
printed, that memoire was omitted, because the Annalls 
reached no farther than the latter end of 1648. When the 
author also communicated to the said D r . Bathurst his se- 
cond book of the said historie, he dashed out many things 
relating to Trin. coll. and somthing of the epitaph of D r . 
Rob. Harris s there : which epitaph D r . Bathurst had 
made, but afterwards was ashamed of it. 

s Dr. Robert Harris was born, 1578, and became a member of 

as his biographer says, "in a dark Magdalen hall in 1595. His tutor 

time and place," viz. at Broad- leaving the hall, he put himself 

Camden in Gloucestershire, an. under the care of Mr. Goffe of 



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169 



Now was A. W. put to a great deal of trouble to un- 
ravel his Historie, and make it fit for a Latin translation. 

(1) He was to take several journeys to London, and else- 
where, to recover the copies of charters, bulls and other 
matters, from the Tower and S r . Joh. Cotton's library. 

(2) He was to runn over all his English copie, to direct 



Magdalen college, by whose in- 
struction he profited so much in 
godly exercises, as to be greatly 
esteemed and preferred by the 
puritanical party. In 1646, he 
was one of the six ministers 
appointed to preach the scholars 
into obedience to the parliament, 
and in the year following was 
made one of the visitors of the 
university, doctor in divinity and 
president of Trinity college in 
the room of Dr. Hannibal Potter 
ejected from his headship. In 
1654, he was a commissioner for 
ejecting scandalous ministers, &c. 
He died at Trinity college, Dec. 
11, 1658, and was buried in the 
chapell there. Over his grave 
was a fair monument set up in 
the wall, where he was said to 
have been " per decennium hujus 
collegii prases seternum celebran- 
dus," &c. which expression Dr. 
Bathurst is here said to have 
struck out from Mr. a Wood's 
copy of the epitaph in page 301 
of the Historia et Antiquitates 
Univ. Oxon. 

In the register of the visitation 
of the university we have the 
following minutes entered in his 
own hand : 

"May 19, 1648. I received 
three several orders touching Tri- 



nity colledge, for the outinge of 
Dr. Potter, and the admittinge of 
myselfe. Robert Harris." A pro- 
hibition against proceeding to 
election at Trinity college dat. 
May 26, 1648 (pag. 108.) 

These pious reformers seemed to 
have been, in one respect, endued 
with a prophetical spirit, and to 
have foretold the restoration of 
the right owners of their usurped 
stations. Accordingly they made 
good use of their time, and taking 
exorbitant fines for renewals of 
college estates, almost sold out 
the whole interest of the college 
in such estates : in consequence 
of which, after the restoration, 
the tenant, on appeal, gained a 
decree in chancery against the 
college. 

Trinity college has reason to 
lament a transaction of this sort, 
which happened during the go- 
vernment of Dr. Harris. 

Other memoirs of his life and 
administration may be seen in 
Athene and Fasti Oxon. 

The Life of Dr. Harris by 
William Durham, duod. War- 
ton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, p. 146. 
Original register of the university 
visitors, in the Bodleyan library. 
W. & H. 



170 LIFE OF WOOD. [1669. 

the translator where, and what space to leave for the said 
charters, &c. and whatsoever was to be represented in 
Italick character ; which done, he was to enter them into 
the translation, with his owne hand. (3) He was also to 
pnt all the quotations and marginal notes with his owne 
hand. (4) He was to correct every sheet as it came from 
the press, and if the translator did omit any, he was to 
supply it. 

He was also, according to the desire of the delegacy, to 
write, while the translation was in doing, the lives of all 
the writers that he could obtaine, to be put in the respec- 
tive colleges and halls, wherein they had been bred ; which 
accordingly he did, before the Historie and Airmails were 
worked off. But this was not all ; for, for the completion 
of this work, he was forced to send very many letters 
abroad, to his great charge, for a Notitia of some of them. 
He also did, before the Annals (beginning with the con- 
querour) went to the press, write the history of the Black, 
Grey, Austin, White, Trinitarian, Crouched and Peniten- 
tiarian, fryers, amounting to about 10 sheets when printed, 
which were not in the English copie when it was sold to 
the universitie. And this he did, because he knew full 
well, that the enumeration and characters of those many 
learned fryers, mentioned in the history of those orders, 
would make very much for the honour of the university 
of Oxon. in forreign parts. His life, day and night, was 
in a continual agitation. 

S r . Pet. Leycester, of Cheshire, having written a book 
containing the antiquities of some part of Cheshire, he 
sent the copie by his son of Brasn. col. to be put into the 
hands of M r . James Hamer, fellow of that house. Mr. 
Feb. 13.' Hamer being acquainted with A. W. he sent him a note, 
to tell him, that he had such a book, signifying that it 
was the desire of the author, that some of Oxford, who 



1670.] LIFE OF WOOD. 171 

were knowing in antiquities, might peruse it, and correct 
or add to it as they thought fit. And A. W. being willing 
to see it, it was sent to him ; so that he taking some pains 
about it, he soon after returned the book to M r . Hamer, 
with a loose paper containing some corrections and ad- 
ditions. 

Eec d of D r . Mew the vicech. an 100 H . for the copie of J 670. 

21 Car. II. 

Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. which he afterwards put into May 29. 
the hand of his brother Christopher. 

A. W. went to London, to carry on the work relating to Apr. 27. 
the Lat. edit, of Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. 

Dined with M r . Ashmole at his house in Sheer-lane, May 1. 
neare Temple barr, and John Davis of Kidwelly was there. 
After dinner he conducted A. W. to his lodgings in the 
Middle temple, where he shewed him all his rarities, viz. 
antient coines, medalls, pictures, old MSS. &c. which took 
them up neare two hours time. 

Dhi'd with Franc, a S. Clara in his apartment in So- 6. 
merset house. It was Friday, and they had a good fish- 
dinner, and white-wine. Will. Rogers was with him. 
There was hearty welcome, and good discourse and free- 
dome ; and when A. W. went away, S. Clara gave him his 
works in two folios, printed at Doway in Latine. 

Returned to Oxon. and soon after he received from the XI. 
carrier the said two volumes. See in Octob. 

At the feast at the Guildhall for the natives of Oxon. 26. 
Mr. Ben. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. preached at St. Peter's 
church in the east, as having been borne in a house oppo- 
site to the Theater in Canditch. 

Nich. LLoyd, M.A. fellow of Wadham, a deare and Jul. 
intimate acquaintance of A. W. published his Geographical 
Dictionary : and because A. W. had communicated his 
Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. in MS. for his approbation, 
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172 LIFE OF WOOD. [1670. 

ance, did give this character of it and it's author in the 
said Dictionary, in verbo Oxon. p. 593. col. 2. running 
thus : " Propediem vero, favente Deo, visurus est librum 
vere aureolum, plurimo labore nee minor e judicio consig- 
natum in quo Oxonia, sive eeleberrimee Universitatis Ox- 
oniensis Historia ex intima antiquitate luculenter illustra- 
tur. Autore Antonio Wood, collegii Mertonensis in eadem 
universitate artium magistro, cujus laudes, integerrimam 
erga me amicitiam, et singularem in hisce studiis indus- 
triam et scientiam, deprsedicabo. 

" Dum thymo pascenter fc apes, dum rore cicada?." 

Note, that this Geographical Dictionary was published 
4 yeares before Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. became ex- 
tant. 
Aug. XI. Dr. Fell having provided a bach, of arts of his college 
(Ch. Ch.) Rich. Peers, u to translate the Hist, and Antiq. 
of the Univ. of Oxon. into Latine, he sent to the author for 
some of the English copie. The author brought it, and 
D r . Fell putting it into Peers's hands, he did then begin to 
translate. But so it was, that he being to seek for a ver- 
sion, that would please the doctor, it was a long time be- 
fore he could hit it, and the doctor took much paines to 

1 Oves MS. Hearne. year 1669, article Clarke, where 
u Mr. a Wood, in this passage, it is said that he was elected beadle 
mentions Mr. Peers only as em- against the inclination and in- 
ployed by Dean Fell in translat- terest of Dr. Fell, who would not 
ing the Historia et Antiquitates suffer him to execute the place of 
Oxon. Dr. Rawlinson (English architypographer " as being unfit 
Topographer, pag. 181.) adds the for it, because he was not a per- 
name of Mr. Wase, as does also son of sobriety." By what appears 
the author of the A necdoteso/Topo- under the years 1690. and 1693. 
graph]/, pag. 408. It seems this lat- articles Peers and Reeve, Rich- 
ter was very unlikely to be pitched ard Reeve was the other person 
upon, from his character given whose service Dr. Fell made use 
in the Athene Oxon. under the of on this occasion. W. & H. 



1670.] LIFE OF WOOD. 173 

instruct him, and would correct what he had done so 
much, that the translator would be forced to write his 
copie over twice, before it could go to the press. At 
length having obtained the knack of a right version, w to 
please the doctor, he went forward with the work, yet all 
the proofs that came from the press went thro the doc- 
tor's hands, which he would correct, alter, or dash out or 
put in what he pleased, which created a great trouble to 
the composer and author; but there was no help. He 
was a great man, and carried all things at his pleasure so 
much, that many looked upon the copie as spoyPd and 
vitiated by him. Peers was a sullen, dogged, clownish 
and perverse fellow, and when he saw the author concerned 
at the altering of his copie, he would alter it the more, 
and studie to put things in that might vex him, and yet 
please his deane D r . Fell, &c. 

With D r . Barlow in his lodgings in Queen's coll. where Sept. 20. 
complaining to him of wearing out his eyes with reading 
old MSS. written in a smal hand, he did therefore give to 
him (A. W.) a larg magnifying glass, which cost, as he 
told him, 40 shillings. He found it very serviceable to 
him afterwards, and it helped him out at many a dead lift, 
in perusing obliterated MSS. &c. 

John Wood a Scot, philosophic professor of the univer- Sept. 24. 

w That Dr. Fell, whose abilities communicates to his friend a 

as a scholar are unquestionable, copy of Latin verses, and desires 

had a peculiar taste in his Latin that Dr. Fell may not have the 

compositions, and an affected fingering and altering of them, 

attachment to the use of some For I think, he adds, "that 

particular words and phrases, for bating the want of siquidems and 

which he was remarkable among quinetiams, they are as good as 

his cotemporaries, is evident from his worship can make." 

a letter written by Dr. South to Warton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, 

Dr. Bathurst, in which the former pag. 177. W. & H. 



174 LIFE OF WOOD. [1670. 

sitie of Edenburgh, and Mich. Geddes, M. A. one of the 
first Scotchmen that did participate of the exhibition of 
D r . Joh. Warner, bp. of Rochester [were with A.W.] 
Afterwards A. W. had them to the taveroe against Alls. 
coll. and there liberally treated them with wine. At the 
same time Mr. Joh. Wood gave to A. W. a book by him 
lately published entit. x 

In the beginning of Octob. A. W. received from Franc, 
a S. Clara his scholastical and historical works: which 
tho printed at Doway an. 1665. yet he found a place 
therein to put a supplement into the remaining part of 
the copies, that were left behind. The supplement is thus 
entit. Supplementum Historic Provincite Anglice &c. 
printed at Doway 1671. fol. Towards the making of 
which supplement A. W. lent to him a MS. then in his 
hands, entit. De primo Adventu Fratrum Minorum in An- 
glia, et eorum gestis, written by Thorn. Eccleston, a Mi- 
norite or Franciscan fryer, living in the raigne of 

At a meeting of the delegates for printing in the house 
behind and northward of the schooles, it was agreed upon 
by them, that subscribers be admitted to come in, at what 
proportion they think fit, to the printing of the Hist, and 
Antiq. of the University, written by Mr. A. Wood, and ac- 
cordingly receive the proportion of the books, or advan- 
tage to be received by them. There were then present 
D r . Mews the vicechancellour, D r . Yate, D r . Edw. Pocock, 

x [Progymnasmata qusedam, ad magisterialem Lauream aspi- 
quibus in Philosophici Tyrocinii rantes, in aede sacra Hyesterensi 
jam praeterlapsi specimen decer- ad diem Julii 18. Sub praesidio 
tabunt A. P. D. O. M. Adolescen- Joannis Sylvii. Edinb. exc. An- 
tes aliquot ex Lyceo Edinburgeno dreas Anderson, 1670. 4 . *] 

* [Wood's Study, No. 113. Wood has written on it, Donum autoris viz. 
Joan. Wood philosophise professoris in acad. Edinburg. Oct. 3. 1670.] 



1670.] LIFE OF WOOD. 175 

D r . Jo. Fell and Mr. Ob. Walker. But this project comming 
to nothing, or else that it was disliked, D r . Fell undertook 
to print it at his own charge. 

Received from Tho. Blount, of the Inner Temple, esq. a No. 12. 

slpp At'tt 

book of his writing and publishing, entit. A Law Diction- ET f ast J 
ary , interpreting such difficult and obscure words, as # r %nderthe 
found either in our Common or Statute, antient or modern, year 1644- 
Laws &c. printed in folio. This book he gave A. W. be- 
cause he had, in his great reading, collected some old 
words for his use, which were remitted therein. After- 
wards sending to him more, they were remitted into the 
second edition of that book. 

William Henry Nassau, prince of Aurang and Nassau, Dec. 19. 
was entertained by the university of Oxon. A. W. hath a 2C 
larg account of this entertainment elsewhere. y 

- - - - Goodson, tenant to A. W. at the Flowr de Luce, Jan. 5. 
died. His son 

D r . Herb. Pelham, senior fellow of Magd. coll. and the 19. 
acquaintance of A. W. died in Magd. coll. He had been 
for several years a constant companion with him at a cer- 
taine club ; and from him had received several informa- 
tions concerning the learned men of his time, especially 
those of his coll. He was at least 74 yeares of age when 
he died. 

A conference or delegacy held in the lodgings of D r . Jo. Feb. 21 
Lamphire, principal of Hart hall, where were present D r . 
Joh. Fell, D r . Jo. Lamphire, and S r . Samp. White, justices 
of the peace; Georg Napier, gent, chief tenant to Merton 
coll. in Halywell, Bob. Whitehall, sub-warden of Mert. 
coll. and Anth. Wood of the said coll. masters of arts. 
This conference was in order for a course to be taken, 
that the towne ditch, on the east side of New coll. wall, be 

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drayn'd, that buildings may be erected on it, and that the 
owners of the said buildings repaire the way lying before 
their dores, viz. that way between the said ditch and Magd. 
coll. wall, that incloses the grove. z 
1 67 1. Whereas the parishioners of S. Peter in the East had, 

22 c^fii* Tli 

' for some yeares, intruded, in their time of procession on 
Holy Thursdayes, on the limits of St. John Baptist parish 
de Merton, by taking in the east part of S. Alban's hall, 
A. W. complained of it to some of the senior fellowes of 

Jim. 1. Merton coll. Whereupon they desired him the said A. W. 
to go with the sub-warden, M r . R. Whitehall, on Holy- 
Thursday this yeare, to prohibit them in comming into 
S. Alban's hall; which they accordingly did, while they 
were making their cross on the kitchen dore; but were 
run downe by clamours. Yet afterwards, by the per- 
swasion of A. W. the sub-warden and fellowes of Mert. 
coll. took order, that, on the following Holy-Thursdayes, 
S. Alban hall gates should be kept locked till the proces- 
sion was over. 

July 7, 8. M r . Jo. Huddleston a Benedictin monke, a preserver of 

z [Feb. 21, 1670. Wheras there be obliged to preserve y e s d ditch 

lyes on y e east side of New coll. clear from filth and y e present 

wall a quantity of wast ground nuisance, as also to keep the whole 

now in y e occupation of Tho. high way before their houses in 

Mynnes, Rich. Shern and Will. repair; provided y t y e said ditch 

Squyre containing by estimation be removed to the opposite ditch 

from N. to S. 520 feet, before w ch toward Magd. coll. wall, and thence 

plat of wast ground towards y e carried downe to the river, and 

east runs the towne ditch, w ch walld on both sides, and covered 

now is ouerrun with mud and and set in sufficient repaire, with- 

filth and is an occasion of stench out the charg and expence of the 

and noysomness to y e place : it is possessors of the said wast ground 

proposed y* y e said wast ground above mentioned, or inhabitants 

be built upon with houses 4 sto- of the houses to be built. MS. 

ries in height of stone work, and Tanner cii. f. 105.] 
y* y e inhabitants of y e s d houses 



1 67 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 177 

his maj. K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester fight an. 
1651, and Thorn. Vincent, alias Vincent Sadler, another 
Benedictin monk, were in Oxon. to see, as it seems, the 
solemnity of the Act. Their lodging was in Allsaints 
parish, in the back-side housing called Amsterdam. M r . 
Tim. Nourse of Univ. coll. being acquainted with them, 
he conducted A. W. to their company : where he heard 
M r . Huddleston (who in 1651 had been chaplayn to a Rom. You may 

S6G XQciHV 

Cath. gent, called M r . Tho. Whitgrave, living at Mo seley things of 
in Staffordshire) tell all the particulars, that passed be- huddleston 
tween his majestie and him during his stay there, with inaDOok > 

entit. Bos- 

very great delight. A. W. desired him then, for posterity cobel. 
sake, that he would committ to writing, what he knew of 
that affaire ; which he promised me he would. This is the 
same M r . Huddleston, who gave the extreame unction to 
K. Ch. 2, when he lay on his death bed. 

Ralph Sheldon, of Beoly in Worcestershire and of Wes- Jul. 21. 
ton neare Long-Compton in Warwicksh. esq. being lately 
at London in the company of Mr. Serenus alias Hugh 
Cressey, an acquaintance of A. W. it fell out, that, among 
other discourses between them, the said S. Cressey, talk- 
ing of A. W. and his worke in the press, commended M r . 
Sheldon to his acquaintance ; and that he might have ac- 
cess to him, he sent by him to A. W. a book, entit. Tabula 
Votiva &c. written by fath. Jo. Reed, a Benedictine, to be 
delivered to him by the said Mr. Sheldon. Soon after 
Mr. Sheldon came to Oxon. (Jul. 20.) and the next in the J ul - 21. 
morn, he went to the chamber of Bog. Sheldon in Ch. 
Church, and desired him to go with him to find out A. W. 
They therefore came to his lodging about 10 in the morn, 
of that day, and enquired for him ; but being not at home 
(for he was at the publ. library) they went to Merton coll. 
and enquired there, but non est inventus. About a quarter 
of an hour after they came againe, and left worde, that 

wood, vol. 1. N 



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when A. W. came home, they (the servants) should tell 
him, that one Mr. Sheldon was to enquire after him, that 
he had a mind to be acquainted with him, and that he 
should find him at the Miter inn, &c. About XI of the 
clock A. W. returned home, and receiving the errand from 
the servants, he put himself in order, and went to him at 
the Miter, where he found with him S r . Littleton Osbal- 
deston and S r . Tho. Penyston. Upon notice given, that 
A. W. was there, he came out of his chamber, talked kindly 
with him at the stair-head, told him he had been lately at 
London with Mr. Cressey, who remembred his service to 
him, and had sent to him a book, but it being put up into 
his cloak-bagg, he could not let him have it at that time 
till he came home, and then he would send it by the 
carrier, which he did. Mr. Sheldon then told A. W. that 
he had a great love for the study of antiquity, and that if 
he had any occasion for a cut, or cuts, to put into his 
book, he would freely give him one or more. 

This was the beginning of the acquaintance between 
Mr. Sheldon and A. W. And seeing that he sought after 
him, and desired his acquaintance, he could not in civilitie 
denie him, &c. Now Mr. Sheldon being a zealous Papist, 
and A. W. afterwards being often in his company, must 
be esteemed a Papist also, as he was by many sniveling 
saints, who make it a most horrible thing to be seen in 
the company of any one of them. 

Sent many additions to Tho. Gore, esq. to be put in 
the next edition of his Cat. of Heraldry Books. See in 
Oct. 1674. 
Aug. 17. Thorn. Allam, M. A. fellow of Ball. coll. and an ac- 

quaintance of A. W. died, buried in the chancell of S. 
Cross of Halywell, neare the graves of the Napiers related 
to his mother. 
22. At Oxford feast at the Guildhall. Will. Browne, bac. 



1671.] LIFE OF WOOD. 179 

of div. and fellow of Magd. coll. preached at S. Marie's. 
Three poore boyes were bound apprentices with moneys 
then collected. 

Alex. Fisher, senior fellow of Mert. coll. and a fatherly Oct. 23. 
acquaintance of A. W. died suddenly in his new house in 
Halywell. About half an yeare before he was taken suddenly 
with an appoplectical fit, but recovering, he set workmen 
to pave Mert. coll. chap, with black and white marble at 
his owne charge. a 

Received from Mr. Ralph Sheldon a book entit. 7%eNov. 3. 
Rule of Faith, (translated by his uncle Mr. Edw. Sheldon) 
with several others, to put into the hands of Oxford book- 
sellers. 

A book entit. Animadversions upon Sr. Rich. Baker's 27. 
Chronicle and Continuation, was first of all published at 
Oxon. in 8vo. having been printed there. The book was 
written by Tho. Blount, of the Inner Temple, esq;, and 
'twas sent to A. W. to have it printed there, and to be by 
him corrected. In the b ninth page of it are these words : 
" Note likewise, that the foundations of the colleges of the 
universities, especially of Oxford, are for the most part 
mistaken, either in point of time or names of the founders, 

a [Alexander Fisher, the son of from his father Walter Fisher, 

a gentleman, and a native of Kent, and his uncle Mr. John Woodier, 

was matriculated of Magdalen lying and being in the parishes of 

hall June 21, 16 16, set. 19. His Maidstone and Boxley in Kent, 

will is dated Jan. 25, 1670, proved the rents, &c. to be appropriated 

Nov. 20, 1671. He leaves 1000Z. to the apprenticing boys born in 

to the college for the purpose of the town of Maidstone, and for 

adorning the chapel, desiring that the relief of poor widows dwelling 

the new paving and repairs may in the same town for ever. See 

be executed within three years the inscription on his monument 

from his decease. He also be- at Merton, in Wood's Colleges 

queaths to the mayor and jurats and Halls, by Gutch, p. 21.] 
of Maidstone all his lands, &c. b L. 101st. Hearne. 

which came and descended to him 

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180 LIFE OF WOOD. [^71. 

which I attempted not alwaies to rectify, both in that it 
exceeded my skill, and chiefly because the Historie of 
that Universitie, as I am informed, is now in the press, 
which will cleare those mistakes, with much certainty and 
satisfaction, being performed by the hand of that faithfull 
and most industrious searcher of antiquities, M r . Anthony 
Wood of Merton coll. &c." There was more that followed 
of A. W. but A. W. scored it out. 

Jan. The said Animadversions, were called in and silenced in 

the beginning of Jan. by D r . Mews, the vicechancellour, 
because therein, p. 30. 'tis said, that the word conventicle 
was first taken up in the time of WicklifF. 

Feb. 9. A. W. went to London, and the next day he was kindly 

received by S r . Leolin Jenkyns, in his apartment in Exeter 
house in the Strand, within the city of Westm. For his 
lodgings in Doctors Commons, which had been burnt in 
Sept. 1666, were not then rebuilt. 
*'• Sunday S r . Leol. Jenkyns took with him in the morn, 

over the water to Lambeth A. Wood, and after prayers 
he conducted him up to the dining rome, where archb. 
Sheldon received him, and gave him his blessing. There 
then dined among the company, Joh. Echard, the author 
of The Contempt of the Clergy, who sate at the lower end 
of the table between the archbishop's two chaplayns Sam. 
Parker and Tho. Thomkins, being the first time that the 
said Echard was introduced into the said archbishop's 
company. After dinner the archbishop went into his with- 
drawing roome, and Echard with the chaplaynes and 
Ralph Snow to their lodgings to drink and smoak. S r . L. 
Jenkyns took then A. W. by the hand, and conducted him 
into the withdrawing roome to the archbishop ; at which 
time desiring him to produce the 12 printed sheets of his 
book, (which he had carried with him from Oxon. by the 
advice of D r . Fell,) he thereupon put them into the hands 



1672.] LIFE OF WOOD. 181 

of S r . Leolin, and S r . Leolin into the hands of the arch- 
bishop, who spending some time upon them, liked well 
the character and paper, and gave A. W. great encourage- 
ment to proceed in his studies. After the returne of A. W. 
to Exeter house, S r . Leolin, who came after, told him, that 
he would warrant him an ample reward, if he would pre- 
sent a fair copie bound to the archb. when the book was 
finished, &c. but this came to nothing, because D r . Fell 
(who printed the book at his owne charge) took so much 
libertie of putting in and out what he pleased, that the 
author was so far from dedicating or presenting the book 
to any one, that he would scarce owne it. 

Returned to Oxon. This journey was taken to Lond. Feb. 16. 
by A. W. purposely to peruse the Will-Office then in or 
neare Exeter-house, in order to write the lives and charac- 
ters of certaine eminent writers, to be put into his book of 
Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. S r . L. Jenkyns was judge of 
the Prerog. and had the chief authority over the said 
office. 

Will. Cox, M. A. somtimes fellow of Brasnose coll. now 1672. 
vicar of Emildon in com. Northumbr. and kinsman to 23 Car * IL 

May 16. 

A. W. died there at Emildon. c 

With Dr. J. Fell in his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Wee werejun. 
then looking over and correcting the story of Joh. Wyc- 
leve, in Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. before it was to be 
wrought off from the press. He then told me, that " Jo. 

c [Will. Cox, (son of Will. Cox incorporated M. A. was made soon 
sometimes fellow of Merton coll. after by the visitors fellow of Bras- 
after wards vicar of Emildon,) M.A. nose coll. Afterwards (i65i)beinge 
of St. Andrew's univ. in Scotland, expelled by Dr. Greenwood for 
was a commoner of Merton coll. misdemeanor, succeeded his father 
in expectation of preferment from in the vicarage of Emildon, Oct. 
the visitors, to whom he submitted 29, 1 65 7 , by the presentation of the 
in the yeare following (1648) and college. Wood's MS. in Bp. Tan- 
in the same yeare, in April, being ner's collection.] 



182 LIFE OF WOOD. [1673. 

Wycleve was a grand dissembler, a man of little con- 
science, and what he did as to religion, was more out of 
vaine glory, and to obtaine unto him a name, than out of 
honestie," &c. or to that effect. 
July 6. Received from Elias Ashmole, esq. his book entit. The 

Institutions, Lawes and Ceremonies of the noble Order of 
the Garter. For which he sent him a letter of thanks for 
the present, and afterwards his Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. 
when finisht. 

With D r . Barlow in his lodgings at Queen's coll. and, 
among several discourses, A. W. told him, what a certaine 
person of this universitie (not naming the man) had lately 
said of Joh. Wycleve. Whereupon he presently made 
answer, that it was D r . Fell. 

1673. Richards, chaplain of All Souls, preached at St. Marie's, 

24 Car. 11. « q 0( j g0 loved the world that he gave himself up, &c." 

Jan. 

D r . Barlow vice-chancellour d called him in question for 
it, because he insisted much on the Arminian points. 
Ftb. 2. Harris a painter in St. Ebbs died this month, setat. 106 

or 107, in the register of St. Peter's in the Bailey. — The 
register was not so high. 
3. My company feared at Trinity college ; note that every 

Monday night I commonly goe there, but Dr. Allestree, 
Millington, Ironside &c. being minded to be private, M rs . 
Bathurst sent her boy and desired me to refrain that 
night. 
10. D r . Bathurst told me that he was told that I was used 

to listen at the common chamber, and elsewhere, and that 
I never spoke well of any man. This, I suppose, came 
from Dr. South' s chamber, for he was there that day at 
dinner, or after, and D r . Bathurst told me this at night. 
d Quaere if not pro-vice-cJiancellour. Sed sic MS, W. & H. 



1673J LIFE OF WOOD. 183 

D r . Fell dean of Ch. Ch. sent for me; I could not Mar. 17. 
come, but wrote a note to this effect : 

" Sir, I desire, if you please to meet me at D r . Yates at 
any time this day, or if you please I shall come with D r . 
Yates to your lodging; I foresee stormes a coming, and 
it is fit I should prevent them &c." 

After this he sent for me to dine with him, I told the 
man that I was to go to Magd. coll. to the president, but 
I would meet him at D r . Yates lodging at one of the 
clock. At one I came, and there he was; he sett upon 
me after a very foule rate, all which I scarce remember, 
but the most part was this ; how came it that he sent for 
me so many times, and I did not come. I told him I was 
busy at Magd. coll. He told me that I was a very uncivil 
fellow, and then plucked out of his pocket the aforesaid 
note, that I should meet him forsooth, and not come to 
his lodgings ; I told him I did not care, and would not 
come, or run the chapter through, as uncivil people; I 
meant Green in Peckwater's inne, which he understood 
well enough ; that I was also uncivil, and did not come 
when he sent for me ; he said nothing. I told him if the 
vicechancellour sent for me I would come, or if the head 
of any college sent for me I would come, but was not 
bound to come at his command, my chief desire was at 
that time, that I might have security given that I writ a 
preface, wherein I might apologize and excuse myself, for 
what the translator hath farther, e also that I wrote the 
book, that it might be a way to facilitate preferment for 
me, but now foreseeing that it might be a ruin, I might 
have liberty to write a preface. 

And this he desired, and said I should, but then the 
translator should another, so that if I write truth, that 
rogue must contradict me. 

e F. put in. 



184 LIFE OF AVOOD. [ i6 73- 

He commanded my copy to be delivered, and I denied 
it, unless they would satisfy me for what I had done; 
then he told me he would have it of me, or else turn me 
out of town ; I told them they should not, I was a native 
and born there to an estate and would not &c. 

That I kept drunken company and they had infused 
matters into my head against them ; I scorned his words 
and told him 'twas false ; he meant Greenwood. 

Apr. 6. Low Sunday. Sam. Palmer of Merton coll. repeated. 

9. Mr. George Verman the sen r . proctor of Exeter coll. 

laid down the fasces of his authority, in whose speech 
then spoke in convocation he insisted near a quarter of an 
hour in praise of me and my work then in the press, I was 
not then there, and therefore cannot give the particulars, 
all that I heard of them was, that there was nothing f no 
antique, nothing so undervalued among the generality of 
people, but I made use of it, for the honour of my mother 
the university of Oxford. I desired by a friend to have a 
copy of as much as concerned me, but was denied. 

s Proctors took their places, great rudeness at Trinity 
college, the undergraduates and freshmen came into the 
hall, scrambled for biscuits, took away bottles, glasses &c. 
at Wadham the like. Tempora mutantur. 

May 27, 28, Mr. Peers made Mr. Gallot stand still. 

June 24. Midsummer day, dined at my brother Kits, cold meat, 

cold entertainment, cold reception, cold clownish woman, 
talking of players and praising them, she asked me to go 
with her and give her a play ; if I had money I would ; I 
must be forced to borrow of my brother I told her. Then 
she began to extoll M r . Fettiplace and dean Huntington 
for cloying with curtesies, and doing any thing she desired, 

f Sic. s Viz. Campion e coll. Trin. "J '■ . " 

Salter e coll. Wadh. jadm. >x Apr. .673. 



1673O LIFE of wood. 185 

I told her if I had it, or were in my power I would do it, 
she told me she had 3001. per annum and scorned to go. 
I told her I came to be merry and not scolded at, she 
angry at the word scolding told me, if I did not like the 
diet, I should leave it. 

M r . Shirley the Terra filius of Trinity college appeared July u- 
and spoke a speech full of obsenity and prophaness, among 
the rest he reflected upon, was me and my book, that I 
made it my business to peer upon old walls, altars, tombs 
&c. that I threatned to geld the translator for gelding my 
book ; that I should say, that he had altered my book so 
much, that I did not know whether it was French or 
Latin ; that I perused all privy houses to furnish me with 
matter to write my book, i. e. meaning from the shitten 
papers; and when all was done, my book was but fit to 
return there again, (but so obscure and dull it was, that 
very few could understand who he meant or what, and 
therefore had no applause : all looked upon D r . Wallis, but 
none upon me, and this was my comfort, that what he had 
uttered to my great disgrace, the vicechancellor in his 
concluding speech recruited all again, for upon speaking 
of the eminent men that have sprung from the university, 
he said that he would leave it, being too long to recite, to 
a book that would lately come forth.) 

The society of Merton would not let me live in the col- 
lege for fear I should pluck it down to search after anti- 
quities, that I was so great a lover of antiquities that I 
loved to live in an old cockleloft rather h in a spacious 
chamber, that I was Vir caducus, that intended to put the 
pictures of » mother Louse and mother George two old 

h Supple than. former was the mistress of a little 

1 The best accounts we can pro- ale-house situated at the further 

cure of these two matrons, at this end of a row of tenements at the 

distance of time, are as follow. The bottom of Headington hill near the 



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wives into my book, that I would not let it be printed, 
because I would not have it new and common. k 






lane leading to Marston, now, not 
unaptly, called Harpsichord row. 
The ingenious author of the Bio- 
graphical History ofEngland,m de- 
scribing a print [by Loggan] of this 
noted female, informs us that she 
was, probably, the last woman in 
England that wore a ruff. She gave 
a name to her habitation, which it 
retained for many years, and was 
called Louse Hall. None of our 
modern antiquarians, not even the 
inquisitive author of The Compa- 
nion to the Guide, have attempted 
to investigate the Founders of 
our antient academical hostels. In 
the Biographical History above- 
mentioned we are told that Cab- 
bage hall (situated directly oppo- 
site the London road on Heading- 
ton hill) was founded by a taylor. 
Caterpillar hall, the name of the 
house higher up the hill, was no 
doubt a complimentary appella- 
tion, intimating to posterity that, 
on account of it's better commons, 
it had drawn away a great number 
of students from its inferior so- 
ciety, or, in other words, that the 
caterpillar had eat up the cabbage. 
Mother George was a very an- 
tient dame, living in Blackboy- 
lane, which leads from the north 
end of St. Giles's, to Rats and 
Mice hill : the perfect use of all 
her faculties, at the age of one 
hundred and twenty years, occa- 
sioned a great resort of company 
to her house. It was her custom 
to thread a very fine needle, with- 



out the help of spectacles and to 
present it to her guests, who, in 
return, gave her some gratuity 
towards her support. In the la- 
ter end of her life, she removed 
into the parish of St. Peter's in 
the Bailey, and died there, by an 
accidental fall which injured her 
back. 

A portrait, supposed to repre- 
sent this celebrated lady, is now 
in the possession of a gentleman 
of New college, Oxford. W. & H. 

[Alice daughter of Hugh Guies 
and Bridget Watkins his wife, 
was born at Droitwich in Wor- 
cestershire upon All Saints day, 
being then Thursday. She was 
t6 years old and an half at Til- 
bury camp 1588. At thirty she 
married Thomas George at Mag- 
dalen parish church, Oxford. By 
him she had ten sons and five 
daughters, among the rest John 
George, living in October 1680, 
aged 76, at which time she reck- 
oned 39 great grandchildren. 
Fulman's MS. Collections at Cor- 
pus. My old college friend and 
brother in law, the Rev. Joseph 
Carter, fellow of St. John's coll. 
and then vicar of St. Giles's, wrote 
the following note as an addition 
to that by Warton and Huddes- 
ford. Mr. Carter was afterwards 
rector of Bainton in Yorkshire, 
died whilst on a visit to Oxford 
Jan. 11, 1840, and lies buried in 
the church-yard of St. Giles. 

" In Lord King's Life of Locke 



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187 



Monday, the election of Oxford mayor, Anthony Hall Sept. 15. 
vintner chosen, at which some young scholars and servi- 



there is a memorandum of that 
celebrated philosopher (page 131) 
which mentions his seeing on 
March 1, 1681, Alice George, a 
woman, as she said, of 108 years 
old at Allhallow tide past; she 
lived in St. Giles's parish, Oxford. 
Locke states her to have possessed 
all her faculties still perfect, and 
to have had as comely a face as 
ever he saw any old woman have. 
On referring to the register of my 
parish of St. Giles, I find this old 
woman to have died on July 12, 
1 69 1, which will bring her, if her 
ownaccountbecorrect,toher 1 19th 
year when she died. Joseph Carter, 
vicar of St. Giles's, Oxford." 

There is an excellent picture of 
mother George by Wm. Son- 
mans, painted about 1690, in 
Wadham coll. common room. A 
print, from another painting by 
M. Powell, was engraved by B. 
Lens in mezzotinto. The old lady 
is stated in both portraits to have 
been 120.] 

k We cannot reasonably expect 
to find much panegyric in the 
character of Mr. Shirley in the 
Athene Oxon. in return for 
the passages above, relating to the 
author of that work : see it under 
the year 1679. 

That A. W. paid him the com- 
pliment of due attention, during 
the delivery of his speech, is evi- 
dent from the passage itself, which 
is here subjoined from the original 
in the Bodleian library. 



Ulterius in luna itineranti 

occurrebat mihi (nescio quo fato) 
vir quidam hujus senescentis mun- 
di, quern ex obsoleta facie et tritis 
vestibus putavi fuisse antiqua- 
rium. At quid negotii antiquario 
in novilunio ? Certe nihil potuit 
illic observare, nisi quod luna 
(sicut ille studet) aliquando retro 
movetur; sed cum librum editurus 
sit die 27 Septembris, stylo veteri, 
de omnibus antiquitatibus, credo 
ilium' in ccelum conscendisse pro 
antiquis lunis. Hie priscus vir 
habitat in prisco cubiculo grand- 
a?vi collegii Mertonensis qui adeo 
gaudet murorum fragmentis et 
ruinis, ut vereatur collegium ne 
totum diruat sedificium, ut ille 
inter ruinas versetur et monu- 
menta : sed cum adeo senectutem 
adoret, et venerandam canitiem, 
miror ergo quid ille sicarios ho- 
mines tam seepe aggreditur, et 
corporum fabricas demoliri stu- 
det ? nam dicam vobis, cum doc- 
tissimus ejus libri* translator 
superfluas frivolasque quasdam 
partes exsecuit, et librum fecerit 
eunuchum, profecto ille statim 
stricto cultro frivolas illius partes 
amputaret, et ipsum castraret cas- 
tratorem, imo parum abfuit, quin 
ilium jugulaverit; quum viderit 
librum suum, (ut vocat) ex Ang- 
lico sermone in alienam linguam 
traductum, ille juravit typogra- 
phos Gallos non tantum librum 
impressisse, sed etiamf Gallica 
Lingua donasse; et sane cum 



* Mr. Pearce ex Mde Ch. f Plurimi ex Typog. in Theatro sunt Galli, 



188 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 73- 

tors being present, heard his speech of thanks out of the 
balcony, viz. that he thanked them for their choice of him, 
that he could neither speak French nor Spanish, but if 
they would walk to the Bear they should find that he 
could speak English, meaning, give them English ale and 
beer. Thereupon the scholars hissed, but the townsmen 
brooking it not, turned them out ; then the scholars made 
some resistance by flipping them on the cheek ; after that, 
in the evening they fought, and so they did on Tuesday 
and Wednesday in St. Peter's in the Bailey ; a scholar of 
Brase Nose his arm broke, another his head; began by 
servitors, and carried on by them, and commoners and 
townsmen of the meaner sort. This continued above a 
week, and would have lasted longer, had not the vice- 
chancellor and proctors bestirred themselves for the ap- 
peasing of it. 

Sept. 23. Oxford feast, Mr. Tho. Fulk; I was not there nor gave 
1 no money, because of the present discomposures between 
the scholars and townsmen. 

Oct. 3. D r# Bathurst took his place of vice-chancellor, a man of 

good parts, and able to do good things, but he has a wife 
that scorns that he should be in print ; a scornful woman, 

dicunt prse Adamitee ilium fuisse buit, sic spero et exitum, utpote 

optime doctum plusquam quatuor solummodo dignus qui ad ab- 

mille abhinc annis, non mirum stergendum podicem damnetur. 

est ilium Latinitatis oblivisci, et Hunc antiquarium maxime abo- 

modernas linguas nescire ; sed minantur vetulse, quia timent, ne 

potissima causa rixandi cum ty- illarum picturas libro preefigat; 

pographis fuit libri impressio, nam sed quidni suam propriam ima- 

dixit se nolle, ut excudetur, quia ginem ? nam cum sit adeo ruinosa, 

typographia est moderna inventio. et exsesa ut fere naso careat, et 

Audivi hunc virum merdarum auriculis, certe antiquitatem satis 

sentinas frequentare, et chartas redolet et prae se fert. Postquam 

ibidem sparsas consulere, sed nes- deserui caducum hunc virum. — 

cio ob quem finem, nisi ut exinde W. & H. 
materiam libri colligeret, et pro- l Sic. 

fecto ut jam putidum ortum ha- 



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6. 



scorns that he was dean of Wells ; no need of marrying 
such a woman, who is so conceited that she thinks her- 
self fit to govern a college or university. 

Christ-Church began. 

D r . Levinz elected president of St. John's, Magistratus Oct. 10, 
indicat Virum, which note; he beats the students there 
and fights. m 

D r . South preaching at Christ Church about sacrilege 12. 



m [The following letter from 
Mr. W. Sherwin to D r . Turner 
president of Corpus Christi col- 
lege, shews that Wood's character 
was not unfounded. It is taken 
from the original in the Bodleian 
library. 

Reverend sir, 

I thought it would not be un- 
acceptable to you, to have an ac- 
count of what has happened here 
since you left this place ; we are 
told that the business of All Souls 
has had two hearings before my 
lord of Canterbury, where Mr. 
Proast persists in denying the 
warden having any right to that 
place : there is nothing yet de- 
termined. On Wednesday night 
Magd. coll. chapel was robbed of 
a great part of their communion 
plate, by some that must needs 
know the college well : 'tis sup- 
posed they lodged themselves in 
the chappel at nine o'clock 
prayers, and came out at the great 
doors which are only bolted on 
the inside; they did not meddle 
with the great plate that stood on 
the altar table, but took what was 
in a chest in the vestry to the value 
of about thirty pounds. There is 



no discovery yet made. The same 
night some maliciously destroyed 
all the young plantation in St. 
John's grove, notice of which be- 
ing given to Mr. president yester- 
day morning, he called the fellows 
together to consider of ways to find 
out the offenders, when he raised 
himself in some heat in passionately 
talking, and suddenly fell back in 
his chair stone dead. One of the 
fellows had a lancet, and endea- 
voured, but could not, make him 
bleed; messengers were immedi- 
ately sent to D r . Delaune and 
Mr. Lowth. Mr. Torriano is upon 
the place, and 'tis thought, if the. 
two former do not accommodate 
the matter between themselves, 
the latter will bid fair for the 
place, he having a great interest 
among the junior fellows. Mr. 
Hudson is gone to London to 
appear for the lecture. Mr. Creech 
it is thought will do so too. I do 
not hear of any other yet. You 
may expect further trouble if any 
thing happens worth your notice. 
From, Sir, Your most obedient 
servant Will. Sherwin. March 
4th, 1697-8.] 



190 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l ^73» 

did come so near home, as to mention by the by (not 
expressly) cardinal Wolsey, and those that were assisting 
to him died evil deaths. a Two days after my papers of 
Ch. Church came to be examined by the dean, Peers and 
Bennet (those two rogues) and they finding that I had 
handled upon that point, Peers altered it, and put in 
matter of their own, which notes, see D r . Fell's putting 
in under his own hand in a paper before the printed Hist, 
and Antiq. Oxon. 
23. D r . Fell put in Piers, Smith, Godwin, into Ch. Church 

among the bishops, I was much against it, he said he 
would beat me out in it, as he hath done all along. 

Nov. 1. M r . Reeves began to transcribe my book at 1426. 

14. S r . Christopher Wren, L.L.D. knighted. 

Dec. 14. Service was translated from the common hall in Merton 

college, to the chappel new wainscoated and paved with 
marble. 

Nov. and A controversy between the vice-chancellor and D r . Fell 

Dec. 

concerning preaching at Ch. Church, D r . Fell would have 
his canons preach, quatenus doctors, and members of the 
university at Ch. Church, the vice-chancellor denied it, 
and would not go after the doctors to Ch. Ch. At length, 
after a reference to the king and council, it was ordered 
from thenceforth that every canon of Ch. Ch. should 
quatenus as a member of the university, preach at St. 
Mary's, and quatenus canon at Christ Church. 
I have a paper of this from Mr. Allix.° 
Dec. 19. Tho. Collins of Glou r . hall entered school master of 

Magd. coll. that night. Mr. Alexander Pudsey mad, by 
reason of pride, caused a poor boy of the college to make 
a bon-fire over against the school door. 

n See a Sermon preached at the ° See Wood's MSS. in mus. 

Consecration of a Chapel 1667, by Ashm. 8489. 37. W. & H. 
Rob. South. W. & H. 



1673.] LIFE OF WOOD. 191 

St. Thomas's day. Mr. Bic. Reeve schoolmaster of Dec 
Magd. who had been a long time suspected a Papist, did, 
npon the president's warning, leave his place. It arose 
from a letter sent 6 weeks before from D r . Lloyd of 
Reading to D r . Fell ; the sense of which was that he had 
defended in a letter sent to Mr. Harris his brother, chap- 
lain to S r . - - - - Rich, of Sunning, St. Austin the monk, 
by his not consenting or knowing of the death of the 
monks of Bangor mentioned in Bede's History, but that 
St. Austin was dead before that time; this was also in 
vindication of Mr. Cressy in his History, who saith the 
like ; the report afterwards ran about that he had a pen- 
sion allowed him to gain proselytes, that he had converted 
all his acquaintance 60 in number : he had rec d . the sa- 
crament according to the Romish way at Mr. Napier's 
1667. 

Citation stuck up this morning, (on the eve I think) to 
call Mr. Nurse home, and if he doth not come at the 
time appointed, he is to be declared non socius of Uni- 
versity college ; all this arisen from the tyrannical act of 
parliament lately made, viz. that any one that hath an 
office of trust, military or civil, should subscribe and take 
the sacrament, which they refused. My acquaintance 
with Mr. Reeve came by his being employed in translat- 
ing my book, by Mr. Fell. 

Upon Mr. Reeve's tui'ning out, which was on 19, Mr. 22 
Browne of New college this morning came and told me 
from others, that Mr. Reeve not only perverted Mr. Wal- 
ter Harris, but had a stipend from the Catholicks yearly 
to pervert or reconcile others. Within two hours after, 
about 1 in the afternoon, my brother Kit came and told 
me the report, that I was generally taken for a Papist, 
but told me nobody that would repeat it. At 4 in the 
afternoon Mr. Nurse came on purpose to tell me the 



192 LIFE OF WOOD, [ l ^73- 

report which he heard, Mr. Charles Perrot of Oriel told 
him at Mr. Fryers on his death bed ; Mr. Nurse a vain 
glorious man, conceited of his worth, ambitious of D r . 
South' s acquaintance, had it thereupon acted in his 
speech, and action in the pulpit, taken notice of all, 
and South himself, a false fellow, reported him his sor- 
did imitator. 

Mr. Tim. Nurse, A. B. elected fellow of University coll. 
19 Jan. 1658, his fellowship pronounced void 5 Jan. 1673. 
Nath. Boys succeeded. 

Poor folks study hard, and with much ado obtain their 
degrees in arts and fellowships, but now noblemen's sons 
are created A. M. for nothing, get fellowships and canon- 
ries for nothing, and deprive others more deserving of 
their bread. 

p " Mr. A. Wood was this year laboriously employed in 
taking about one hundred and twenty two MSS of the 
lord Fairfax's, which had been deposited in the Bodleian 
library, and were in danger of being spoiled by a moist 
season, from thence into the muniment room in the tower 
of the schools, to dry them upon the adjoining leads. 
For this he obtained leave of the vice-chancellor, and tho' 
the work cost a month's labour, yet his respect to the 
memory of Mr. Dodsworth, to whom these MSS formerly 
belonged, and his care to preserve whatever might advan- 
tage the commonwealth of learning made him undergo it 
with pleasure. 
1674. "The first produce of his labours and studies was pub- 

25 Car. II. jjgj^ a £ Oxford, viz. the Historia et Antiquitates Universi- 
tatis Oxoniensis. Upon this work the author had spent 

P The reader is desired to note nacks for these years are not to 

that the passages included in these be found, or else are deficient in 

marks " — " are supplied from many particulars, 
other papers, as the pocket alma- 



1675.] LIFE OF WOOD. 193 

ten years of his life, which, after it finished, was, by the 

curators of the press, viz. S 1 '. Leolyn Jenkins, S r . Jos. 

Williamson, Joh. Fell, D. D. Tho. Yate, D. D. dedicated 

to his majesty, to whom it was presented at Windsor in 

July 1674. by D r . Richard Allestry then provost of Eaton 

college. The king was pleased to accept it graciously, to 

turn over several leaves of it, and hold a long conference 

about it. Soon after the governours of the university 

agreed that as many copies as were worth 80/. should 

be presented to the great personages of the court, the 

clergy and the law. 

" The most illustrious prince John William prince of 1675. 

Newburg (son of the duke of Xewburar) count palatine 26 Car - IX « 

. ... J urL - 2 - 

of the Rhine, duke of Bavaria, Giuliers, Cleve and of 

Mons, count or earl of Yalentia, Spinhrm la Mark, Ra- 
vensburg and Moers, lord of Ravenstein &c. coming to 
the university, was created D 1 '. of the civil law. He was 
conducted bare headed in his doctor's robes from the 
apodyterium into the convocation house, with the beadles 
marching before, and the king's professor of law with 
him, the vice-chancellor then, with the doctors and mas- 
ters, standing bare. And being come to the middle of the 
area, the said professor presented him with a short speech, 
which being done, the vice-chancellor created him with 
another. Afterward he was conducted to his seat of state 
on the right hand of the vice-chancellor, and then the 
dep. orator, who stood on the other side near to the 
registraiVs desk, complimented with another speech in 
the name of the university. He was then conducted to 
the theatre and entertained with vocal and instrumental 
music by the professor of that science. This prince was 
then about 18 years of age, and had taken a journey into 
England purposely to pay his respects to the lady Mary, 
the eldest daughter of James duke of York. And after 
wood ; vol. 1. o 



194 LIFE OF WOOD. \_ 1 &11 ■ 

he had seen most of the rarities in the public library, 
several colleges, physic garden &c. the vice-chancellor 
D r . Bathurst, D r . Fell and other doctors made a present 
to him at his departure, of the Historia et Antiq. Oocon. 
with cuts, in two volumes fairly bound, together with the 
Bodleyan Catalogue and Loggan's Oxonia UlustrataA 

" This year also the same books were, by a decree of con- 
vocation, presented to the most illustrious prince Cosmo 
de Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, which present was 
accompanied with a Latin letter written by the publick 
orator D r . South, wherein a character of these books was 
given." 
1677. Mr. Lane tells me, he was turned out 1643, and be- 

2 " ' yond sea taught Hebrew and Arabick : restored to his 
fellowship in Caius college, did not look after preferment, 
never went to church, died suddenly in his chamber in 
winter time 1677, taken with an apoplectical fit, fell upon 
his hearth, where the coals laid lighted that had been 
raked out of the chimney ; his back and side was burnt. 

Not one scholar matric. in 1675, 1676, 1677, 1678, not 
one scholar in Glocester hall, only the principal and his 
family, and two or three more families that live there in 
some part to keep it from ruin, the paths are grown over 
with grass, the way into the hall and chapel made up with 
boards; I have been credibly informed, that before the 
war, in Degory Wheare's time, there were 100 students, 
and some being persons of quality, ten or twelve met in 
their doublets of cloth of silver and gold, but, since the 
king's restauration to this year, I never knew above four- 
teen in number. 

In 1634, Degory Wheare being then principal, there 
were 92 students in Glou. hall. 

1 See Fasti Oxon. under the year 1675. Warton's Remains of 
Dr. Bathurst, pag. 55. W. & H. 



1677.] LIFE OF WOOD. 195 

About one in the morning the lord chancellor Finch Feb. 7. 
his mace was stole out of his house in Queen street. The 
seal laid under his pillow, so the thief missed it. The 
famous thief that did it was Thomas Sadler soon after 
taken and hanged for it at Tyburn 16 March 1677. 

- - - - Cradock r of Mag. coll. repetitioner. 

In the beginning of April William Rogers barrister of Apr. 22. 
Lincoln's inne spoke in my behalf to the lady Powis for a 
herald's place, she therefore inviting to dinner Howard 
earl of Norwich, and lord marshal!, spoke to him, who 
answered her that the practice was, that every one of the 
society of heralds doth rise gradually upon a vacancy, and 
that when any herald dies, the eldest pursuivant succeeds. 
See his letter to me. 

I took a vomit which worked so much that it almost 26. 
killed me; only crocus metallorum. 

Charles Maurice Tellier arch-bishop and duke of 
Rheims, primate of France, came with Crequi to treat 
about a marriage with the lady Mary, daughter of the 
duke of York with the dauphin, 7 at night came to Ox- 
ford with some attendance, a tall proper man in a plush 
coat, sword by his side, and peruque ; set. 40, or there- 
abouts. Gastrell Ch. Ch. told D r . Fell the bishop of it, 
he took no notice of it, because he came incognito, at 
length, upon several messages to him, he went to the 
Angel inn the next day in the morning, and thence had 
him to the schools, Ch. Ch. S t . John's, &c. but nothing 
pleased him, and, as French commonly do, slighted all 
things, and spoke uncivilly things to the bishop. He 
departed at 11. May 8. at which time IX Fell gave him 
the History of Oxford with cuts, Marmora Oxon. et Cat. 
Lib. in Bibl. Bodl. 



r [Thomas Cradock, elected probationer 1671.] 
o2 



196 LIFE OF WOOD. [1677. 

In the beginning of this month did these verses go 
about in writing. 

The l blazing comet, and the ^monstrous whale 
The 3 breaking of the shins of Lauderdale 
The ^parliament at the eclipse being called 
And 5 Osborne's George fell off before installed 
The 6 bishop who from France came newly ore 
Did go to Betty Beauties for a whore. 

1. Blazing comet appeared in April to many, but I 
could never see it. The queen fell sick then, and it was 
thought she would have died. 

2. Monstrous whale at Yarmouth Feb. 1676-7. 

3. The duke of Lauderdale stumbled, and broke his 
shins. 

4. The king put out his proclamation, 7th May, for the 
calling the parliament on the 21st, on which day was the 
Eclipse. 

5. Lord treasurer Osborn his George fell off his rib- 
bon, because the hook was not well sodered, he was in- 
stalled 23 Apr. 1677. 

6. Tellier archbishop of Rheims came into England in 
the beginning of May, and other French nobility to see 
London : Betty Beaulies an old bawd in Durham yard. 

About midsummer a sturgeon of eight foot long was 
taken up at Clifton ferry in com. Oxon. by some of the 
family of - - - - Dunch of Wittenham, D r . Lamphire eat 
some of it, and Hen. Price of the Blue Boar dressed it. 
July 13. Election at Merton college for the Rhetorick lecture 

for the year ensuing, M r . Workman the warden's fa- 
vourite, and Mr. Wight the sen r . proctor stood, I gave 
my vote for the latter as most deserving by/far, the war- 
den therefore was pleased to say, that " I was a disturber 
of the peace of the college." 



1677.] LIFE OF WOOD. 197 

George Barber of Oriel coll. and proproctor met in his Aug. 4. 
walk, abont 11 o'clock at night, one Phil. Dodwell a 
chandler about the Chequer, asked him, what he did 
there, bid him go home; he gave him insolent language, 
and would not obey him, he put him into the vice-chan- 
cellor's, 8 the city upheld Dodwell. They go to law about 
it with the cause about the night watch which the city 
denies ; this fellow with his assistants had beaten Lewis 
the proctor the last year, for which he was brought upon 
his knees and submitted. Note the proproctor met him 
on the other side of the gutter, and * questing him, where- 
upon he whips on the other side on his own ground be- 
fore his door near the Chequer, and asked the proctor, 
what he had to do with him, he was not of his body and 
would not obey him; the proctor commanded him to 
come to his chamber the next day to pay 40s. he denies 
it, and then is put in the court. 

Friday at night M r . John Haslem caught with Price's Aug. 10. 
wife at an ale house in Blew Boar lane by proctor Wyght, 
turned out of his butler's place, had three children by her. 

Oxford feast, Tho. Jenkinson of Magd. coll. a sadler's 3°- 
son in St. Peter's parish, preached. 

At city sessions where certain townsmen indicted or Oct. 4. 
put up the mayor and bayliflfs, for not keeping up the 
night watch, the universitie justices there present say, 
the night watch is theirs, the town denie it, and so they 
desire a trial ; vide June following. They said had there 
been a night watch, New college plate would not have 
been stolen; the night watch from Ascension to Mi- 
chaelmas. 

D r . Nicholas warden of New coll. took his place, very 8. 
active in walking and hunting taverns, Magistratus indicat 
Virum. 

s Supple, Court. W. & H. c Sic. W. & H. 



198 LIFE OF WOOD. [*°77- 

About the beginning of this month, Mr. INourse of 
Univers. coll. who formerly turned Catholick, fell sick at 
London, and having something lie heavy on his con- 
science, sent for D r . Simon Patrick minister of St. Paul's 
Covent garden, and told him, that having been in an 
errour, he desired to receive the sacrament according to 
the Protestant way ; the D r . told him, that if his disease 
was not desperate, that he would do well to consider of 
what he would do, and he would come to him the next 
day, the D r . accordingly came, and M r . Nourse continu- 
ing in the same mind, received the sacrament from his 
hands, but then recovering of his sickness, and repenting 
of what he had done, returned to his former opinions. 
So Dr. Patrick in a letter to M r . Thomas of Ch. Ch. 
This is to be putt into his life. 
Nov. 2. The duke of Bucks, steward of the city of Oxford, was 

entertained with a dinner by the citizens at Soladell 
Harding's in All Saints parish. There were with him 
several country gentlemen, who eat up their victuals, 
and in requital spoke liberally at dinner against the uni- 
versity. Murrell u vintner was mayor, but being sick of 
the gout, sir Sampson White did the office for him for 
that time; there is a ballad of this entertainment, which 
came to 2001. 
io. Saturday a convocation, D r . South' s resignation of the 

orator's place being read, to which place the new vice- 
chancellor set up one Manningham of his college, but 
perceiving the university to incline to M r . Bayly of Magd. 
coll. a statute was started, requiring the candidate to be 
present, for he was out of town, whereupon v Robert 
Cradock of Magd. coll. professed himself at that time a 
candidate, and carried it by 7. Vide mens. Dec. 

u W m . Morrell. W. & H. v Thomas ex reg. Convocat. W. & H. 



1 677.] LIFE OF WOOD. 199 

Wednesday H. F. left me, and I exceeding melancholy 14. 
all that day, and some days after; God bless H. F. 

Thursday another convocation, wherein was declared, *5- 
that Tho. Frankland sometime of Braze Nose had forged 
the university seal, and had set it to a writing whereby 
it tested that the said Tho. Frankland had taken his 
degree of D r of physick in this university, but upon 
search into the register, it was found, that he never took 
that degree, as it was also commonly known. He did 
take his degree of B.D. and renouncing his orders prac- 
tised physick, and being an ambitious man and supposing 
the university would not grant that degree, he forged a 
writing, and thereupon was admitted into the college of 
physicians, became censor, and I know not what. You 
must note that all that was done at the convocation, 
was a letter from the members of the college of physi- 
cians of London to the uniyersity, desiring them to set 
the common seal to writing witnessing that Tho. Frank- 
land was not M.D. the . convocation agreed to have the 
seal set to it. He hath forged a will also. 

Edm. Plowden of Shiplake died and was buried there, Nov. 23. 
great grandson to Edm. Plowden the famous lawyer. 

Charles lord Herbert, eldest son of Henry marquis of 26 
Worcester, was matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. set. 
16. natus Lond. I set this down here, because the father 
and ancestors were all Catholicks, but because the mother 
is a Presbyterian, a Capel, she (against the father's will 
as 'tis said) will have him bred up a Protestant, so that 
by this change the Catholicks will lose the considerablest 
family in England, and the richest subject that the king 
hath. 

Divers would be asking the king, who should be arch- 
bishop, who to put off and stop their mouths, he would 
tell them, Tom Bailies ; he is a drunken, lecherous justice 
of peace for Westminster. 



200 LIFE OF WOOD. [1677- 

Dec. 13. - - - - James of Ch. Ch. made his logick speech at the 

schools, and reflected on D r . Bathurst late vice-chancellor 
for his former carriage in this office. D r . Bathurst is no 
great friend to the masters, and hath said it often that 
many of them deserve to be put out of the house. x 
20. Sunday such a great mist, especially in the morning 

before 11, that I could not see, or know a man 40 of my 
paces distant. Oxford low and subject to vapours. 
29. Conge des Lire went to Canterbury to elect D r . San- 

croft archbishop of Canterbury, set up by the duke of 
York against London, and York put on by the Papists. 
York doth not care for London, because he shewed him- 
self an enemy to the Papists at the council board. 

This year, in Winter, Rich. Hollo way councellor was 
made sergeant at law, so that now we have 3 sergeants 
living at Oxford, viz. the said Rich. 2. Rich. Croke re- 
corder who proceeded an. 1676, and Charles Holloway the 
old man who proceeded about 1665, seldom or never came 
to St. Mary's when he was counsellor, but when sergeant, 
he came to take place above the doctors, yRob. Holloway 
sergeant in 1677 took opportunities to come Oxford cir- 
cuit as justice itinerant. 2 This I set down because all 

x Vid. Warton's Remains of ford, An. 15 - - or thereabouts* 

Dr. Bathurst, pag. 83. W. & H. The following account may, per- 

y Sic. W. & H. haps, reconcile some mistakes, 

z Among Mr. Wood's MSS.in which Mr. Wood seems to have 

the museum is a small book, con- made with respect to the family 

taining several copies of verses of Holloway. 

which is entitled Mr. Bulkley's Verses made on the five Hollo- 

Libell on divers Persons in Ox- ways living in Oxford ; 1667. 

1 Sarjeant, 2 Barrester, 3 Necessitie, 4 Notarie, 5 Mercer 

1 Gravely dull, 2 ill spoken, 3 Lawless 4 cum pergere, 5 broken 

1. Sarjeant] i. e. Old Charles 2. Barrester] i.e. Richard Hol- 

Holloway sarjeant at law living at loway living against Blew-bore in 
All Souls coll. St. Aldate's parish; son of Richard 

* [See Athene col. 609.] 



1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 201 

people took notice of it, how he was blinded by ambition. 
The king's revenue in customs, excise, and chimney men 
comes to about 160000/. per annum, besides first fruits. 

Why doth solid and serious learning decline, and few 
or none follow it now in the university ? Answer, because 
of coffea-houses, where they spend all their time ; and in 
entertainments at their chambers, where their studies and 
coffea-houses are become places for victuallers, also great 
drinking at taverns and alehouses, spending their time in 
common chambers, whole afternoons, and thence to the 
coffea-house. 

Beginning of this month colds became very frequent, 1678. 
many sick and keep up, colds without coughing or run-ja n . a " 
ning at the nose, only a languidness, and faintness. Cer- 
tainly Oxford's no good air. 

W m . Sancroft a clounish, odd fellow. 

A hearing then to be concerning the proproctor Barber Feb. 7. 
and young Dodwell, and there was a prohibition expected 
to proceed at the common pleas, but deferred till next term. 

Phil. Dodwell discommoned as they say. 

The university hath received a prohibition to proceed 
against Dodwell. 

Hollo way, officiall to the archdea- 1. Gravely dull] i. e. the ser- 

con of Berks and public notarie. jeant, grave and almost doting. 

3. Necessitie] i.e. Yong Charles 2. Ill spoken] i.e. Barrester, 
Holloway, son of the sarjeant, so because as they say he speaks 
call'd because Necessitas non habet well of no man, censorious. I 
legem, being a barrester, but no believe false. 

lawyer. 3. Lawless] i. e. Necessitie Hol- 

4. Notarie] i. e. old Richard loway as before. 

Holloway before mentioned. 4. Pergere] i. e. Notarie Hollo- 

5. Mercer] i. e. Franc. Hollo- way, but why I know not.* 
way, a mercer, brother to Serjeant 5. Broken] i. e. Mercer Hollo- 
and old Richard Holloway. way, a broken mercer. W. & H. 

* [Doubtless the allusion was anything but complimentary : may he not 
have been known as " Perjury Holloway ? "] 



202 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 

They received it at their own court on Friday, which is 
a curtesie. 
Mar. 16. Mr. Peter Nicholls died, left 200 /. to the coll. (Merton) 
and 1001. to St. Giles's parish, that with the revenues 
thereof a sermon yearly be preached on St. Peter's day 
by the parson of St. Giles, who is to have 40 s. and the 
rest to the poor of the parish. a 

23. Saturday the junior proctor made his speech; 180 

bachelors this last Lent, and all things carried on well, 

but no coursing, which is very bad. Quaere the reason? 

Apr. 7. Mr. Durston of New college repeated. 

24- A fast at Oxford and elsewhere for a prosperous pro- 

ceeding in war against the French. D r . Marshall preached. 

29- I returned from Weston to which I went 16 Feb. and 

kept a Lent. In the beginning of this term on St. Mark's 
day, was a hearing at Westminster concerning the univer- 
sity business, between them and Dodwell upheld by the 
citizens, mentioned in August before, and another demur 
made for the 40s. Dodwell was mulcted with, noctivaga- 
tion was only according to the university statute, and not 
by the king's charter. The citizens grew insolent there- 
upon, and procured a letter to be sent to the commis- 
sioners of the poll money in Oxford, to let them know 
that the servants of colleges must pay poll for their wages 
and places. This letter was brought to the commissioners 
at the apodyterium by one of the town sergeants, ult. 
April, being Tuesday. The townsmen acknowledge 6s. 8 d. 
to be paid for noctivagation, and noctivagation they ac- 
knowledge, but not fourty shillings. 

This month was a Fry day's market, and four fairs 
granted by the king to the earl of Litchfield to be held 

a [He also left a legacy of forty N. of Shrewsbury. He was ma- 
shillings to our author. Peter triculated of St. Alban Hall Nov. 
Nicholls was the son of William 4. 1631, a?t. 19.] 



1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 203 

in his mannor of Charlbury near Woodstock. Here had 
been an ancient market. See my Discourse of the Markets 

- - - Ballow of St. John's, a physician at Camden in May 2. 
Gloucestershire, died in the house of John Folkes, an 
apothecary in St. Mary's parish, buried at "Weston near 
Camden. 

Memorandum, that D r . Lamphire told me that there 12. 
were 370 and odd alehouses in Oxford. — Qu. the excise- 
man, and have it under his hand. Means to create idle- 
ness, and debauch scholars. 

All this month and part of April have many red coats 
been quartered in Oxford, and part of this month a great 
many dragoons (in number about 700) in order to be sent 
far away beyond the seas. They were most if not all dra- 
goons. 

Voted in convocation that no act should be celebrated June 10. 
this year, under pretence that there was no D. D. pro- 
ceeded, but the true reason was, that the town and uni- 

b [ — Within few yeares after tions did for his great conve- 

y e first grant of a market to y e nience grant divers portions of a 

towne of Abendon, another was void plott of ground without his 

by K. Steph. granted to y e monks parcke to severall men to build 

of Einsham * within lesse then 4 theron y* soe his retinue might 

miles of Oxon to be there kept on there lodge and not be troubled 

every Lord's day though contrary to retire in y e country adjoyning, 

to K. Cnutes lawsf and last of and therupon a market was by 

all another at Wodstock by K. him granted to those to be kept 

H. 2. as appeares by an inquisi- on every Tuesday throughout y e 

tion § 7. Ed. I. for he as I find yeare, and his baillive to receive 

being much delighted in that y e toll. Soe farre may be said 

place for y e sake of his beloved concerning y e erection of those 

Rosamond and residing there markets within 6 miles of Oxoh — ] 
more then at his other habita- 

* [Reg. Einsham cart, xxx.] 

f [A market and fair at Cherlbury com Oxon. V. Collect, ex lib. Einsham, 
p. 14.] 

§ [Ex quada inquisit. in Tur. London, cui titulus : Dominicu alii regis de 
Wodstock. IP. 43.] 



204 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 

versity being at variance, the university would not contri- 
bute to their enrichment, to pluck out the university's 
eyes. I heard this at the Bath 20th June ; another reason 
was that the red coat dragoons watched and warded every 
night, and kept guard at their officer's doors, and the uni- 
versity knew not but that they might abuse the strangers 
that came to the Act. 

Jun. 27. Red coats left Oxford, came again. 

29. St. Peter's day I returned to Oxford from the Bath, 

where I had been from the 30th of May, but received no 
benefit, it cost me about 8/. 

July 1. Old Jone began to make my bed. 

23. Our great bell rung out for D r . Hinton, rector of Islip, 

sometime fellow of Mert. coll. who died 22 at Islip, and 
was buried there. 

Sept. 6. Oxford feast, this month Tho. Jenkinson the sadler's 

son preached. Occasions given to all men to talk what 
they please, especially the banterers of Oxford (a set of 
scholars so called, some M. A.) who make it their em- 
ployment to talk at a venture, lye, and prate what non- 
sense they please, if they see a man talk seriously they 
talk floridly nonsense, and care not what he says, this is 
like throwing a cushion at a man's head, that pretends to 
be grave and wise. 

Oct. 8. King Henry the VIII's chair, that stands in the privy 

gallery at Whitehall, was bewrayed by one, if not two 
persons, in a most filthy and plentiful manner. 
16. I dined with Mr. Hen. Parker at his house in Honing- 

ton in com. Warwick, and after dinner was shewed to me 
a cabinet of rarities, mostly collected at Constantinople, 
and other Eastern parts of the world, such curiosities that 
my eyes never beheld the like, all sorts of shells, divers 
sorts of natural stones, medals gold and silver, coins gold 
and silver, Turkish pictures, and others of England in 



1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 205 

miniature, all sorts of looking glasses, a piece of Dido's 
tomb, and many other things ; they were valued at 500/. 
besides the cabinet, but at last sold for little more than 
one hundred. 

I was told from sir Tho. Spencer's c house that the king 26. 
had given D r . Fell, bishop of Oxford, a patent for an 
Earll (which comes to about 1000/.) towards the finishing 
of the great gate of Ch. Ch. next to Pembroke coll. he 
intends to bestow it on Mr. Lutterell a gent. comm r . of 
Ch. Ch. of Somersetshire, having 4000/. per annum at 
present. 

Many of the divines in Oxford of poor spirits prick up 
their ears and crests upon the discovery of the plot, talk 
very boldly and undaunted. 'Tis a grand piaculum not 
to believe the worst of reports, great want of charity ; but 
these are poor spirited men. 

A hearing at Westminster between the two bodies, who 3°- 
were ordered to compromise the business amongst them- 
selves, and so there was an end of Dodwell's business. 

Sergeant Newdigate, a judge in Oliver's time, died the 
latter end of this month. 

D r . Hall of Pembroke (presbyt.) preached sharply and Nov. 5= 
bitterly against the Papists at St. Mary's. Qu. whether 
originally appointed to preach ? 

One of the dragoons clapt up in prison, the castle, as 
suspected to be either a priest, or a monk ; it seems, being 
a little in drink, he spoke some scraps of Latin, as the 
mode was, salve Domine. Mr. Harding of Trinity accuses 
him. I heard that he hath been a traveller, and by order, 
a Dominican. 

A general fast throughout the nation, Mr. Tho. Man- 13. 

c At Yarnton near Oxford ; teen years ago. See also Wood's 
great part of this antient family MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8505. 
seat was pulled down about six- W. & H. 



206 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 

ningham of New coll. the same who stood for orator, 
and one accounted a wit preached at St. Mary's, and had 
several girds against the Papists, not railing, but ingenious, 
if not witty. 
22. Mr. Tho. Marriot, high sheriff of Warwickshire, and 

Ridley his undersheriff, came to Mr. Sheldon's house (at 
Weston) with a warrant to imprison him either in War- 
wick gaol, or at London, wherefore he went to War- 
wick. 
27. At one in the morning a fire broke out at Burroughs 

an ironmonger in Allhallows parish, and burning part of 
the next house (Souche a milliner) burnt his wife : it 
broke out in a back lower room of Souche' s house, and he 
and his wife laying over that room were waked and choaked 
with the smoke ; he ran down to quench the fire, and she 
fell into a swoon, and there laid, and the fire burnt her, it 
took hold of Burrough's house, and the dragoons being 
very vigilant to quench it, had 5 pounds given them as a 
reward by the university. It was vainly reported that the 
Papists had a hand in it. 

28, 29. D r . Wallis took away all writings and registers, that I 

have had in my keeping eighteen years, for fear that 
they should be seized on, he supposing that I might be in 
the plot, because Mr. Sheldon was lately clapt up in pri- 
son; the man that is studious and reserved is Popishly 
affected. 

Dec. 1. Sunday about one of the clock in the afternoon, D r . 

Nicholas vicechancellor with a beadle and his 2 men 
taking my lodging in their way to St. Mary's church, he 
the said D . Nicholas came up into my chamber, and 
there told me in my eare, that he had lately rec d . com- 
mand from above to enquire after all such under his go- 
vernment that are suspected to be Popishly addicted, and 
to secure their chambers, and studies, for any papers or 



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LIFE OF WOOD. 



207 



writings relating to the plot. e Hereupon I told him very 
freely that I should submit to his will ; that being done, 
he told me, that I was the person that kept correspond- 
ence between Mr. Sheldon's family, and the Mitre inne in 
Oxford. I told him that that could not be for I only fre- 
quented that inne when my horse came for, or with me, to 
it ; after which, saying no more, he desired me that I would 
walk into my study, and so I did, and he after me, and 
looked upon what papers he pleased, but found nothing : 
afterwards he desired to know where my letters lay, where- 
fore I had him into another study, and shewed him divers 
letters from Mr. Ralph Sheldon (with others) the last of 
which was dated the last of July 1678. — All which he 
perused, but could find nothing, but great expressions of 
love and kindness in Mr. Sheldon's letters. Afterwards 
he told me that I must receive the oath of allegiance. 
I answered him, I would if he would appoint a time, 



e [From the original in the univ. 
archives : " Whereas by his ma ties 
commission directed to us bearing 
date y e 29 th of Jan. in the 30 th 
yeare of his ma ties reigne, wee are 
required to offer to and receiue 
from all Popish recusants or soe 
reputed, within y e precincts of y e 
vniversity of Oxford y e oathes of 
allegiance and supremacy, these 
are to desire y* you would certify, 
under your hand, y e names of 
such persons w th in or belonging 
to y e society as are concerned as 
afforesaid uppon Tuesday y e 18 th 
of this present February to the 
hands of M r . Vice Chancellor. 
Given this 13 th of Ffebruary anno 
167L 



In Merton coll. there is only 
M r . Anthony Wood who hath 
been suspected to be Popishly 
affected. Tho. Clayton cust. coll. 
Mert." 

So that Wood owed little to the 
kindness of the warden : but he 
paid the debt in full, in his ac- 
count of himself and his wife, as 
we have already seen. 

It is not a little amusing to see 
Obadiah Walker's testimonial to 
the anti- papistical character of his 
own college: "Feb. 17, i67§. 
These are to testify, y* I know 
not of any one in University col- 
lege in Oxon. to be either Papists, 
or popishly inclined. Witness my 
hand, Obad. Walker, MV] 



208 LIFE OF WOOD. [1678. 

wherefore he told me, that next morning, at ten of the 
clock, he should be at leisure. Note, that the reason he 
should say, why I kept correspondence, arose, I suppose, 
at my coming into Oxford f Thursday, the 14th of Nov. 
at which time, as I rode by St. John's coll. between 12 
and 1 . several of that college walking before the gate saw 
me, and the next day, when I went out at that time, they 
saw me again, and one of them, as it is probable, made the 
report. He studies to be active, and shew himself zealous 
in his office, and sorry he seemed to be, because he could 
find nothing; that he could please the parliament, he 
would have hanged me. 

2 . Monday at 10 of the clock, I waited on Mr. vice-chan- 

cellor D r . Nicholas, where after some discourse he offered 
me the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, both which 
oaths I took, he and I being only together, after which he 
told me that I should have a certificate of it. & 

6. A programma stuck up in every college hall, under the 

vice-chancellor's hand, that no scholars abuse the soldiers 
(dragoons under sir John Talbot's command) in the night 
watches that they keep at the guild hall, peniless bench, 
and at most inne doors where the officers lie ; it was dated 
3. Decemb. 

11. Wednesday - - - Barnesby a Jesuit sent for up from 

Worcester to London to be examined, came through Ox- 
ford in his journey, attended by a guard and a tipstaff, 
railied at by the boys. 

23. Dined with D r . Lamphire. D r . J. there asked me, whe- 

f Sic. W. & H. and in the yeare above written, 

s The second of Decemb. an. take the oaths of allegiance and 

1678. — These are to testifie to all supremacy before, and in the pre- 

to whom this writing may come, sence of me Jo. Nicholas vie. 

that the bearer hereof Anthony a can. Oxon. — Ex Orig.inBib. Bod. 

Wood master of arts of the uni- W. & H. 

versity of Oxford did, on the day 



1678.] LIFE OF WOOD. 2G9 

ther I was not yet summoned before the king's council ? 
I asked why he thought so, and other foolery, but no 
more than I expected from him. D r . Hall master of 
Pembroke there, took no notice of me, when he came in, 
or at the table, or when he went away, only if I was 
talking with any body he would be still saying, " what is 
that he saith," being intent to pick a quarrel with me 
about religion : a malepert presbyterian since this plot, 
nothing of malepertness before. 

Note that one whom they call father Lovel a Jesuit 
hath lived in Oxford many years to supply service for the 
Catholicks, in and near Oxford, but upon the late procla- 
mation for the taking, and securing all Jesuits and Roman 
priests, viz. Mr. Hunt's at the Castle mill, both since the 
proclamation published being searched as they say twice 
for him, and Monday Dec. 16 (he being seen in Oxford 
early in the morning) that house again was searched that 
day, between 11 and 12 in the morning; his being seen 
is but a report, and the searching of that house was 
but in course, when they did all the Papists' houses in 
town. They say once he took water behind Mr. Eulke's 
house. 

Thomas Latton, sometime of Kingston Bakepuze in 
Berks, left his religion since the king's restauration, and 
sheltered himself, as 'tis said, among the Jesuits, came to 
Oxford in this month, and lodged himself at Francis Al- 
der's against the Fleur de Lis. The mayor having notice 
of it, went and tendered to him the oaths of allegiance 
and supremacy, whereupon he gave security for his ap- 
pearance next sessions after the twelfth day : his eldest 
son is with him, and he, they say, has taken it, and will 
leave the Roman religion. 1679- 

40007. per annum collected for the poor of St. Giles in 3 ° w ' 
the field's, London, but in a year's time after the plot was 

wood, vol. 1. p 



210 LIFE OF WOOD. [1679. 

discovered, and the Papists banished, it fell to 700/. this 
year. 

The contribution throughout England and Wales for 
the poor arises to 500000/. per annum, but before the al- 
teration of religion there was no such contribution, nor 
repairing of bridges, nor high-ways : this is able to main- 
tain an army. 

300/. per annum collected in Oxford for the poor. 

Is it not a shame that it should be accounted unusual 
for scholars to go to Augustin's disputations, and that the 
masters of the schools speak English to them ? 

After the breaking out of the Popish plot, several of 
our scholars were tried, and at length were (1680) dis- 
covered to be Whigs. 
Jan. 6. Twelfth day, a dragoon being in the back yard of the 

Ship inn, in Jesus lane, and aiming his musquet at a 
privy house door behind those houses opposite to Baliol 
college, killed a taylor's wife named Dalby, who kept a 
shop against Baliol college. He appeared at the sessions 
two or three days after for the fact. 
14. I sent my observations and corrections of sir William 

Dugdale's Baronage to the author, towards a second edi- 
tion; there are 17 several papers on the first volume, and 
64 on the second, all containing about 7 or 8 sheets of 
paper, they are to be returned to me, when the author 
hath done with them, with another sheet in 4 to , that I sent 
him in 1675. 
24. We heard that the mayor and common council had 

made an order, that the high steward should be prayed for 
by the lecturers in their prayers before sermons at St. 
Martin's ; the bishop denies it. k 

k [In the form of prayer now is this clause inserted — for the 
(1848) used by the lecturers of nobility, gentry and commonalty 
St. Martin's before their sermons of this land : and here in Oxford 



1679.] LIFE OF WOOD. 211 

I gave my book of the Hist, et Ant. Oxon. to the He- Feb. 10. 
raid's office in quires at the request of sir W m .Dugdale, 
Garter. 

Tuesday Br. Whorwood, esq. and W m . Wright alderman n. 
of the city chose burgesses for the city to serve in parlia- 
ment, which is to begin 6. March. Geo. Pudsey of Ells- 
feild, esq. then stood, and rec d . the canvass, which cost 
him, they say, about 300/. 

Convocation, wherein letters were read from the chan- 19- 
cellor in behalf of Mr. Heneage Finch, solicitor general, 
to be one of our burgesses to sit in parliament, purposely 
to set aside D r . Eddisbury 1 of Brazen-nose, who auda- 
ciously, and with too much conceit of his own worth, stood 
against the said Mr. Finch, D r . Lamphire, and D r . Yerbury : 
but a week before D r . Yerbury put off his votes to Finch 
for fear Eddisbury should carry it. Note, that D r . Eddis- 
bury stood in 1675 against him and sir Christopher Wren, 
but being soundly geered and laughed at for an impudent 
fellow, desisted. 

Election for knights of the shire, those that stood were 26. 
sir John Doyly, sir John Cope, sir Edward Norris, and 
John Clarke, esq. counsellor at law, it lasted till 28. day 
about 12. or 1. in the afternoon, and Cope and Norreys 
carried it. 3000 votes, they say, were given. 

A convocation celebrated at 8 in the morning : stood to 27. 
be elected Heneage Finch, solicitor general, in the place 
of sir Francis Winnington, a younger son of the lord 
chancellor, he was not here himself, but had his agents ; 
Dr. John Lamphire, M. D. history professor, D r . John 



pray we for the right worshipful councillors of the corporation of 
the mayor, George Duke of this ancient and loyal city.] 
Marlborough high-steward, the l Fasti Oxon. under the year 

recorder, aldermen, sheriff and 1672. W. & H. 

r 2 



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Eddisbury of Brazen-Nose, D r . Hen. Yerbury of Mag. 
coll. did stand also, but in compliment to the attorney m 
general was taken off by the vice-chancellor and others, 
about a fortnight before the election. The solicitor-general 
had 201 n votes, D<\ Lamphire had 209, D'. Eddisbury 245, 
but the vice-chancellor and the heads having a mind that 
the solicitor general should be chosen for the good of the 
university, would not pronounce the election after the 
scrutiny was finished, which by statute he might have 
done, but delayed till such time those that had given but 
one vote (who again were called in to give for another 
person) so that by this means Finch having more than 
Lamphire, the vice-chancellor proposed to the convocation, 
whether the indentures of election should be sealed, but 
the non party being most, D r . Fell was sent for, who 
though he pleaded hard for his own man, (Finch sometime 
of his house) yet the jun s . prevail still, and D r . Lamphire 
again protested against the unlawfulness of it : so, about 
one of the clock, the convocation was dissolved. 

Eddisbury carried it by the jun rs . and potmen, he being 
one himself; but after all was done, it was found, that 
the calculators had mistaken the votes, and numbered 
Mr. Finch's to be less by 4 than D r . Lamphire's, where- 
upon the vice-chancellor avouching it then to D l *. Lam- 
phire, he rests quiet. 

Note that Eddisbury and his party went the night 

before the election, and got all Mag. coll. and Ch. Ch. 

votes; for D r . Lamphire had 18 at Magd. and more at 

Ch. Ch. The vice-chancellor shewed himself false to 

Dr. Lamphire at that time, though a pretended friend to 

him. We were polled by two writers, without swearing, 

in the divinity school. 

m Sic. W. & H. n 243. Dr. Bouchier 7. See Reg. Convoc. 

W.&H. 






1679-] LIFE OF WOOD. 213 

This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the 
bachelors by advice and command of the proctors. Vander 
Hwyden of Oriel was then a collector ; so that now they 
got by their collector ships, whereas before they spent 
about 100/. besides their gains, on cloaths, or needless 
entertainments. This month ° - - - Wharton, M. A. of 
Queen's college and vicar of St. Clements buried in that 
college chapel. 

Tho. Cradock, M. A. university orator, died. P Mar. 22. 

Election for orator ; Mr. Penton, principal of Edmund Mar. 26. 
hall, a good orator, stood, q - - - Waple, M. A. of St. 
John's, who had 95 votes, and W m . Wyat, M. A. student 
of Ch. Ch. sometime deputy orator for D r . South 112 
votes, the last carried it, because Ch. Ch. and Mag. col- 
lege joyned together, as they did in the election of bur- 
gesses of the university in February. 

A fast, or day appointed for all his majestie's subjects Apr. n. 
to seek by fasting and prayer a reconciliation with Al- 
mighty God, and with humble and penitent hearts to 
implore him by his power and goodness to infatuate and 
defeat the wicked councills and imaginations of our ene- 
mies, and to continue his mercies, and the light of the 
gospel to us, and our posterity, and to bestow his abun- 
dant blessings upon his sacred majesty and this present 
parliament, that their councils and endeavours may pro- 
duce honourable safety. 

This is canting, for they do not care for the king, and 
their fast is, that the preachers may rail, and make the 
commonalty out of love with his majesty's loyal subjects. 
Damned Presbytery ! they pretend to love the king, and 
rejoice much in his recovery from a dangerous sickness 



Gilbert. W. & H. p Fasti Oxon. under the year 1673. 

W.&H. q Edward. W. & H. 



2,14s LIFE OF WOOD. [1679. 

at Windsor in August this year, yet they will not give him 
money in any of their parliaments. 

Mr. John Mills of Queen's coll. M. A. and fellow 
preached at St. Mary's not much better. 

In Reg. Convocat. p. 131. r 'tis said that Mr. Tho. Man- 

ningham of New coll. had 2 votes, Waple of St. John's 92, 

Penton 99, W. Wyatt 112. 

Wm. Rawlyns ■ 

Apr. „, Low Sunday, Matthew p anting of Pem. coll. repeated 

at St. Mary's very well. 
ult. Mr. Walker told me, that more than a fortnight since 

sir Harbottle Grimston made a speech in the parliament 
house, and therein took occasion to mention the printing 
of Popish books at the theatre in Oxford, amongst which 
were the Life of Alfred, s and the Historia fyc. Oocon. 
wherein are many unseemly things of the reformation 
said (informed so by Gilb. Burnet), also a Bible printed 
there, wherein are many faults. 
May 1. At 10 at night a fire in a backside near the Three 

Goates at one Mathews in Northgate street. 

Saturday D r . Michael Roberts, D.D. t sometime prin- 
cipal of Jesus college died with a girdle loyned u with 
broad gold about him (100/. they say) at Tom Apleby's 
house against Logick lane, buried in St. Peter's church 
yard. 
14. The common talk that Mr. George Barber, fellow of 

Oriel coll. and bursar, was run away with 500/. of the 
college money. 

In this month was the high way in St. Giles from 
against Tom. Rowney's house to the east end of St. Giles 

r Pag. 231. Reg. Convocat. t Fasti Oxon. under the year 

W.&H. 1649. W.&H. 

s Athene Oxon. under the u Sic. W. & H. 
year 1643. W.&H. 



1679.] LIFE 0F wood. 215 

church repaired, viz. not pitched as that against St. John's, 
but stones laid with gravel over them. 

Monday I gave a scio for S r . Prince, Slatter, Colby, and June 23. 
Wroughton, fellows of Merton coll. when I had done, and 
was gone, one George Browning of Ch. Ch. said that I 
had no vote, neither was I Mr. of arts, and made a hubbub 
at the lower end of the congregation house. Q. whether 
set on by Peers ? 

In this month of June passed a dispensation for the 
musick and musick lecturer to be translated from the 
music school to the theatre, and the 12 July following it 
was solemnly and well donn at 7 and 8 in the morning. 

I sent certain animadversions on part of Gilbert Bur- July 4. 
net's History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 
dat. July 5 to sir W m . Dugdale, who is to give them to 
the said Mr. Burnet; angry at the conclusion in what I 
say of the ground of our Reformation. x 

x [A Letter written to me by may see your mistakes, arid ac- 

Anthony "Wood, in justification cordingly rectifie them, (if you 

of his History of the University think fit) in the next part that is 

of Oxford, with reflections on it; yet to publish. P. 86. But after 

referred to alphabetically. lie hath set downe the instrument, 

From Burnett's History of the he gives some reasons, Sfc. 

Reformation of the Church of Eng- The two first reasons, (if they 

land, part the third. Appendix, may be so called) *were put in by 

page 389. another hand j and the other were 

Sir, taken from these three books fol- 

Your book of The Reformation lowing, b viz. From D r . Nicholas 
of the Church of England, I have Harpesfeild's Treatise concerning 
latelie perused, and finding my marriage, fyc. which is a fair ma- 
self mentioned therin, not with- nuscript in folio; written either 
out some discredit, I thought fit in the time of Queen Marie, or in 
to vindicate my self so far in these the beginning of Queen Elizabeth .- 
animadversions following, that you and 'tis by me quoted in my book, 

a I could not know this : He publishes them, and is justly to be charged 
with them. 

b From such authorities what else was to be expected ? 



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[1679. 



Aug. 15. Oxford city, their election of burgesses, Broome Whor- 
wood and alderman W m . Wright chosen. Pudsey lost it 
but by twenty votes. 



in the place excepted against. 
From Will Forest's life of queen 
Catherine, written in the raign of 
Queen Marie, and dedicated to 
her. 'Tis a manuscript also and 
written verie fairlie on parchment. 
c From an Apologiefor the govern- 
ment of the Universitie against 
king Henry the 8th .- Written by a 
Master of Arts Septimo Elizabe- 
ths. 'Tis a Manuscript also, and 
hath all the King's Letters therin, 
written to the Universitie about 
the question of Marriage and Di- 
vorce, with several passages re- 
lating to convocations concerning 
the said questions. 

So that by this you see I do not 
frame those reasons out of mine 
owne head (as partiall men might) 
but what other authours dictate 
to me. 

Ibid. Upon what designe I can- 
not easily imagine. 

No designe at all God-wot, but 
meerlie for Truth's sake, which 



verie few in these dayes will de- 
liver. 

Ibid. And as if it had been an 
ill Thing, he takes paines to purge 
the Universities of it, Sfc. 

It was an ill thing I think, (I 
am sure it was taken so to be) for 
a Prince by his letters to frighten d 
People out of their Conscience, 
and by menaces force them to say 
what must please him. But see- 
ing the Masters would not be 
frightened, and therefore they 
were laid aside, (the matter being 
discussed by a few old timerous 
Doctors and Batchellors of Divi- 
nity, who would say any thing to 
please the king, least danger 
should follow) they ought to be 
commended, or at least justified 
for keeping their consciences safe. 

Ibid. And without any proof 
gives credit to a Lying story set 
downe by Sands, of an assemblie 
called by night. 

Sands is not my authour, for 



c This, as D r . Lloyd informs me, is Parsons' book ; an author of no better 
credit than the former : For he was a, Master of Arts of Baliol College, in 
Queen Elizabeth's time. See Wood in Bal. col. 

d I do not find there was any frightning threatnings ; none appear in the 
King's letters. If he had this from any good authors, he had done well to 
have quoted them. It is not honourable for the University, as it is not pro- 
bable to represent all the Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity, as men apt to 
be frightened out of their consciences : and that only the Masters of Arts 
were impregnable. It is rather to be supposed that the one sort were car- 
ried away by faction; and that the others were guided by learning and 
conscience. 



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217 



University election; sir Leolin Jenkins, Dr. Charles 19- 
Perrott of St. John's, D r . Oldysh of New college, and 



he says no such thing in his book 
De Schismate, of an assembly e 
called by night : my author for 
this is the Apologie before men- 
tioned, which adds, that when a 
Regent of Baliol College, (whom 
they called king Henry) heard that 
the Commissarie, and his company 
were going to dispatch this night 
work, denied the Seals with his 
breeches about his shoulders, for 
want of a Hood. See in Hist. 8f 
Antiq. Oxon. Lib. 1. P. 256. A. f 
The truth is, the meeting was un- 
seasonable, and their actions clan- 
cular; as being protested against 
by, and done without the consent 
of, the regents. And as for Sands, 
though I cannot well defend him, 
yet many things in his book De 
Schismate, especially those relat- 
ing to the universitie of Oxford, I 
find from other places to be true, s 
Ibid. But it appears that he had 
never seen, or considered the other 



instrument, to which the Universitie 
set their seale. 

The grand collection, or Far- 
rago, which Mr. Thomas Masters 
made, (by the Lord Herbert's ap- 
pointment) in order to the writing 
of King Henry the 8ths Life, I 
have seen and perused ; but could 
not with all my diligence find that 
instrument (as you call it, yet we, 
an Act, or Decree) of Convoca- 
tion ; neither in the three great 
folio's written by another hand, 
containing materials at large for 
the said life ; neither in any of the 
Registers, Records, or Papers, be- 
longing to the Universitie. So that 
for these reasons, and that be- 
cause the Lord Herbert says, it 
was blurred, and not intended for 
the King j and also not under seal, 
(you say 'twas) neither passed in 
the house by the majority of votes; 
therefore did I omit it as not au- 
thentick. h I truly believe, or at 



e He says it was called clam ; that could hardly be, but in the night : So 
this is no material difference. In the rest you agree with Sanders. 

f I see no reason for this. The Instrument set forth by the Lord Herbert 
shews, that the persons deputed had good authority to set the University 
seal to their determination : and they were not tied to forms, but might have 
done it at any time. 

& Yes, such authors as you quote : you say you cannot well defend Sanders. 
It seems you would if you could. These are soft words concerning the scan- 
dalous Writer. 

h All that you say here is only negative Authority ; but since the Lord 
Herbert says he saw the original, though it is not in any of these collections, 
you must either believe it, or make him a liar : and if it was an original it 
must either have been subscribed by the hands of the persons deputed ; or 
must have had the seal put to it. The beginning of it shews it was not sub- 
scribed ; for it is in the name of John Cottis/ord, their commissary : So it 



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[1679. 



Mr. Lane, sometime of Ch. Ch. son of sir George Lane, 
were competitors, but the black potmen carried it for 



least have good grounds to think, 
that it was only drawn up, and 
not proposed; for if it had, it 
would have been registred : There 
being nothing proposed, either in 
Convocation or Congregation, but 
is registred, whether denied, or 
not. And the register of that 
time is most exactly kept ; and 
nothing thence, as I can perceive, 
is torn out. 

Ibid. There seems to be also 
another mistake, in the relation he 
gives .- For he says, those of Paris 
had determined in this matter. 

I say 1 so from Warham, Arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, then Chan- 
cellor of the University : Who in 
his letters thereunto, desires the 
Members, to make what Expedi- 
tion they could, to give in their 
Answer to the King's question; 
forasmuch as Paris and Cambridge 
had done it already. —For this I 
quote the Book of Epistles, in 



Archiv. Lib. Bod. MS. Epist. 197. 
Yet, I believe, the Archbishop said 
this, to hasten the University of 
Oxon the more ; tho' probably it 
was not so. However, I am not 
to take notice of that but to follow 
record as I find it. And that I 
do follow record throughout all 
my Book, there is not one, I (pre- 
sume) of the senate of antiquaries 
can deny it; and therefore, how 
there can be many things in my 
book (of my framing) that are 
enemies to the reformation of the 
Church of England, as was sug- 
gested by you to sir Harbottle 
Grimston, (who thereupon made 
a complaint in open parliament 
last April, against the said book) 
I cannot see. k Truth ought to 
take place ; and must not be con- 
cealed, especially when 'tis at a 
distance. And if our Religion l 
hath had its Original, or Base, on 
Lust, Blood, Ruin, and Desolation, 



must have been either in the form of a Notary's Instrument, or must have 
had the seal put to it, for he calls it an original. Perhaps the blurring of it 
might either be casual, or when it was brought to Court, the King might 
have made some alterations in it, that it might be renewed according to these 
Corrections. * It might be causual ; Lord Herbert says not that it was rased 
out, $c. 

i In this you had a warrant for what you wrote, but I had a better to cor- 
rect it by. 

k I do profess I do not remember that I ever mentioned your book to him : 
and sir Harbottle himself, when I asked him the question, said he never heard 
me speak of it. 

* This is writ very indecently : neither like a divine nor a Christian. 



These words in Jtalick are in the Bishop of Worcester's Hand- 



1679.] LIFE 0F WOOD. 219 

Perrot, a thorough paced soaker, sir Leolin Jenkins 204, 
D'. Perrot 224, D r . Olclysh New coll. 104. V 

Tom Wood chose probationer fellow of New coll. 24. 

There came out in Aug. as I conceive, a most pestilent 
pamphlet against the bishops in one sheet, printed 1679, 
intit. Omnia comesta a Belo, or an Answer out of the West 
to a Question out of the North. It shews what revenues 
the bishops, deans of churches, and arch-deacons have, 
what servants, officers, and others belong to them, what 
mony they yearly get and lay up to the hindrance of trade, 
and yet will not write against Popery or Presbytery. 
Mr. Massey told me this. Not one Bp. answered it, not 
one in the universities, I am sure not in Oxford, nor by 
any, only Roger L'Estrange, in his book intit. The free 
born Subject, or the English Man's Birth Right. 

The D. of York went from London to Windsor, in the Sept. 
company of the earl of Peterborough, Mr. Churchill, and 
some of his servants ; this Mr. Churchill, afterwards lord 
Churchill, ungrateful to him, not only in running away, 
but endeavouring to betray him to the enemy. 

Rob. Pauling, draper, chose mayor for the ensuing 
year; whereas all mayors in memory of man used to be 
mealy mouthed and fearful of executing their office for 
fear of losing trade, this person is not, but walks in the 
night to take townsmen in tiplmg houses, prohibits coffea 
to be sold on Sundays, which D r . Nicholas vice-chan- 
cellor prohibited till after evening prayer, viz. till five 
o' clock; but this R. Pauling hath been bred up a Puri- 
tan, he is no friend to the university, and a dissuader 

(as all Religions, or Alterations in This is all from him that studies 

Governments, have had from one Truth. Anthony a Wood, July 

or more of them) why should it the 5th 1679.] 

be hidden, seeing it is so obvious >' Lane obtinuit 45. Reg. Conv. 

to all curious searchers into record. W. & H. 



220 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 79- 

of such gentlemen, that he knows, from sending their 
children to the university, because that he saith, 'tis a 
debauched place, a rude place of no discipline; he will 
not take notice of quaker's meetings, when he is informed 
that there is such, but for a Papist, he hates as a devil — 
his Wallisian instructor. 

Oct. 19. I heard at Weston that the vice-chancellor of Oxford, 

Dr. Fell, has denied Oates his incorporating D.D. You 
must note that lord Lovelace brought Oates to the horse 
race at Woodstock on Holy Rood day, and because he 
would have company come there to the enriching of the 
town, caused him to preach on Sunday and Tuesday. 
This was partly to spite the lord treasurer and the king 
for taking away his place of ranger. After the horse 
races were done, Oates sent word to the vice-chancellor, 
that he would come, and wait on him, not surprize him, 
for his degree, but they denied him, that is, if he was 
D. D. — at Salamanca they would incorporate him. 
24- In the evening, when the duke of York returned from 
his entertainment in the city, Oates and Bedlow were got 
into the balcony of one Cockerill a blinkeyed bookseller 
in Cheapside, and a great rabble about them, as the duke 
passed by, they cried out " a Pope, a Pope," upon which 
one of the duke's guard cocked his pistol, and rid back, 
saying, what such factious rogues are these ? Upon which 
they cried out, " no Pope, no Pope, God bless his high- 
ness." So the king's worthy evidence (Oates and Bedlow) 
sneaked away. 

Dec. 16. John Dryden the poet, being at Will's coffee house in 

Covent garden, was about 8 at night soundly cudgelled by 
3 men, the reason, as 'tis supposed, because he had re- 
flected on certain persons in Absalom and Achitophel. 

21.22. 23. Extreme cold weather, a poor 2 died with hunger and 

z Supple, Man, W. & H. 



1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 221 

cold. He began to die in St. Clement's parish, but the 
parishioners discovering it, hurried, or rather carried him 
to the tower in the parish of St. Peter in the East to die 
there, and so save the parish 2 or 3 shillings to bury him. 

A flood came down the river Charwell, by much rain, 29 & 30. 
that fell towards Banbury 2 or 3 days before ; little here : 
the meads all drowned, so that this now is the 2d. flood 
we have here. 

About dinner time rung out the great bell of St. Marty's 30 
for W m . Bull, yeoman beadle, who died at his house in 
Magd. parish, a very good servant. Stands for his place 

Anthony Carslegh, B. A. sometime of Bal. coll. a 

Crostley, stationer, b Sherwin, barber, c 

King, butler of man to the vice-chancellor, Cap. 

Terwick, an old cavalier set up by Ch. Ch. d 

Litchfield, the printer, e Tayler, apothecary. 

Ant. Carslegh and Sherwin had even votes, about 50 a 
piece, and Carslegh being B. A. carried it by virtue of a 
statute in that point. He was chosen Jan. l. f 

" Deest Diarium Anni 1680." 

Soladin Harding, cook, had three daughters buried all 1681. 
together at Holywell, who died of this malignant disease, j 2 ar ' 
they died on Thursday night and Friday morning, this 
may be noted, as well as that Marsh the taylor in Cat- 
street had 3 children born at one time an. 1670, or there- 
abouts. 

Three of the probationer fellows of Mert. coll. were 12. 
admitted fellows, the fourth, S r . Southley, was put aside 

a John. W. & H. f Litchfield had 10 votes, King 

b William. W. & H. 14, Crosley 33, Capitaneus Ter- 

c John. W. & H. wick 43, Taylor 45, Sherwin 56, 

d Leonard. W. & H. Carsley 56. Ex Beg. Convocat. 

« William. W. &. H. W. & H. 



222 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 

for being a green ribband man, and saying that the old 
king Charles I st . died justly, and speaking against the 
bishops and other things, (see Notes from Congregation) 
and grace denied. 
13. News that alderman W. Wright a burgess for the city, 

had lately made a motion to a committee to have the for- 
mality of St. Scholastica's day laid aside. Townsmen 



/ 



about into London, grow insolent as in 1641. 
l8 - Mr. Allam told me, that the citizens have taxed or 

cessed the priviledged men of Oxford, towards the militia 
which served when the prince elector was here; D r . Hyde 
principal of Magd. hall, who lives in the town, denies it, 
and they seize on his goods. Lord Norreys lieutenant of 
the county hath been hitherto a friend to the university 
about these matters, and hath refused to give his hand to 
it, yet the deputy lieutenants, as Pudsey &c. have set 
their hands. 

The city would also have the night watch of their own, 
but this and the former, the mayor (Bowell) pretends that 
he will have nothing to do with it. 
Feb. 2. Mert. coll. 8 bells, newly cast by Christopher Hudson 

of London, rang to the content of the society; for his 
work and his metal, he is to have above 300/. they were 
before cast from 5 to 8 by one Michael Derby, anno 
1656, who spoiled them. 

2 Election of S r . Leolin Jenkins, nobody stood against 
him or D r . Perrot, yet Mr. Ames Crymes of Exeter, a hot 
head, called for a poll and capitation, whereupon the vice- 
chancellor being amazed at it, bid the company, those 
that were for S r . Leolin Jenkins, go on one side, and 
those for another on the other, whereupon all went on 
one, and left Crymes, Adams, Thomas Newe, and others 
of Exeter on the other, but they, being ashamed, went 
there too. 



68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 223 

The duke of Bucks came into Oxford over Magd. 3. 
bridge at 7 at night, conducted by the citizens by torch 
light from St. Clements to his lodging to help forward 
the election of Whorwood and Wright, and lay at 
Wright's. 

Friday, election of burgesses for the city, Brome Whor- 4- 
wood, William Wright, and Geo. Pudsey stood, the last 
lost it by almost 100 votes, this is the third time he hath 
been canvassing within these two years, and lost it by 
means of Bucks and Lovelace, who were appointed by the 
cabalists to promote this election here, that is rebellion 
and discord, which the last parliament hath done among 
the commons and vulgar; some of the citizens, though 
bred amongst scholars, cried " no universities, no scholars, 
no clergy, no bishops." 

St. Scholastica; the mayor (J. Barells) and about 20 IO - 
citizens or more came to St. Mary's according to custom ; 
heard prayers, and would have offered 65 pence, but the 
vice-chancellor refused, unless all were there. The rest 
out of contempt would not come as in 1641, meerly en- 
couraged for what they do, by the late high demeanour of 
the parliament. 11 

g y. W m . Bayly or John Bowel. fell upon the students, and in 

W. & H. spite of the mandates of the chan- 

h The origin of this ceremony cellor and even the king himself, 
was a furious contest between the who was then at Woodstock, con- 
citizens of Oxford and the stu- tinued their outrages for several 
dents. Some of the latter being days, not only killing or wound- 
at a tavern, on the 10 of Feb. ing the scholars, but in contempt 
1354, broke the landlord's head of the sacerdotal order, destroy- 
with a vessel in which he had ing all the religious crosses in the 
served them with bad wine. The town. For which offences the 
man immediately got together a king deprived the city of many 
number of his neighbours and valuable priviledges, and bestowed 
fellow citizens, who having long them on the university, and the 
waited for such an opportunity, bishop of Lincoln forbid the ad- 



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One hundred and ninety two bachelors to determine 
this Lent, but 23 or thereabouts were not presented on 



ministration of the sacraments to 
the citizens. In the following 
year, they petitioned for a miti- 
gation of this sentence, but with- 
out success ; but in 1357, a total 
abrogation of it was granted upon 
condition that the city should an- 
nually celebrate on St. Scholasti- 
ca's day, Feb. 10, a number of 
masses for the souls of the scho- 
lars killed in the conflict; the 
mayor and bailiffs with sixty of 
the chief burgesses being bound 
also to swear, at St. Mary's church, 
observance of the customary rights 
of the university, under the penalty 
of 100 marks, in case of omis- 
sion of this ceremony. And it 
was further ordered, that the said 
citizens should, after mass, offer 
up singly at the high altar one 
penny, of which fourty pence 
were to be distributed to poor 
scholars, and the remaining to 
the curate of St. Mary's. This 
offering being omitted, upon pre- 
tence that masses were abolished, 
the university, in queen Eliza- 
beth's reign, sued them for the 
sum of 1500 marks due for such 
neglect during 15 years; when it 
was decreed that instead of mass 
there should be a sermon and 
communion at St. Mary's, which 
at length came only to publick 
prayers,* and that the said offer- 
ing should be made; in which 
form the ceremony is now ob- 



served. The traditional story that 
the mayor was obliged to attend 
with an halter round his neck, 
which was afterwards, to lessen 
the disgrace, changed into a silken 
string, has no real foundation. 

See Wood's, Hist, et Antiq. 
Oxon. p. 173. Ayliffe's Ancient 
and present State of the Univer- 
sity of Oxford, vol. 1. p. 126. 
W. &H. 

[In the year 1800, another at- 
tempt to evade this customary ce- 
remony was made by the then 
mayor, Richard Cox, esq. who 
neglected to attend at St. Mary's 
church. For this contempt the 
university demanded and reco- 
vered the fine of 100 marks of 
Mr.' Cox. But at the close of 
1824 the mayor and council ap- 
plied to the university for a total 
abolition of the custom, declaring 
that their house would, " with one 
voice, consider the acquiescence 
of that body in the discontinu- 
ance of the ceremony as an es- 
pecial mark of attention and re- 
gard to the wishes and feelings 
of the corporation, and as an act 
to be held in grateful remem- 
brance by the citizens of Ox- 
ford." In consequence of this 
representation, on the I st of Feb. 
1825, the university seal was af- 
fixed in convocation to an instru- 
ment releasing the mayor and 
citizens of Oxford from the per- 



* [ Afterwards reduced to the reading: of the Litany only.] 



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Egg Saturday, their time for determining short, that is 
to say, every bachelor was to determine twice between 
the 17 Feb. to 7 March, because the king was to come 
soon after, and the parliament to sit on 21st March. 

Note, that the Divinity school hath been seldom used, 
since altered and changed (but before 'twas a pig market) 
but now this Lent, because the Geometry, Astronomy and 
Greek schools were fitting for the house of lords, 4 twice 



formance of the acts heretofore 
required of them on Dies Scho- 
lastica, which was thus acknow- 
ledged : — 

" City of Oxford in the County 
of Oxford. The fourth council of 
William Slatter, esq. mayor of the 
said city, holden in the council 
chamber of the said city^Monday, 
that is to say the 7 th day of Fe- 
bruary, 1825. 

" The mayor having laid before 
the house a Deed dated the i st in- 
stant, whereby the university have 
released and discharged this cor- 
poration from their obligation of 
the 15 May, 31 Edw. III. and 
from all payments under it, and 
from all services and offerings on 
the day of Saint Scholastica in 
lieu thereof, and have cancelled 
and annulled the said obligation 
for ever; 

" Resolved unanimously, That 
the warmest acknowledgments of 
this House are due to the Uni- 
versity for this act of grace and 
favour; important in itself, and 
rendered doubly acceptable by the 
manner in which it has been con- 
ferred. 



" The mayor having also laid be- 
fore the House a note from the re- 
verend the Vice- Chancellor, where- 
in after noticing the pleasure with 
which he transmitted the above 
instrument to the Mayor, he re- 
peats his cordial -wish that the 
most perfect harmony may ever 
subsist between the University and 
City :— 

"Resolved further; That highly 
sensible of the kind and concilia- 
tory disposition shewn by the Vice- 
Chancellor personally, and by the 
whole University collectively, to- 
wards the City upon this occasion, 
this House, whilst it testifies its 
hearty concurrence in the wish 
expressed by the Vice- Chancellor, 
records with sincere satisfaction 
its firm conviction that the pre- 
vailing good understanding be- 
tween the two bodies cannot but 
be permanently strengthened by 
the issue of the late communica- 
tions, calculated as it is to con- 
firm and perpetuate in the citizens 
of Oxford the sentiments of re- 
spect and attachment to the Uni- 
versity."] 



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every day, or three at least, were appointed to determine 
there. 

Jan. 25. At a convocation in the Theatre for the reception of 

the D. of Brunswick 1 amongst other things it was granted, 
that such undergraduates that had not time to proceed 
bachelors till next term might proceed this, but with this 
condition, that their time for master should commence 
not from this, but the next, term. It was also granted 
to the bachelors, that they might proceed this, that had 
not time till the next term, because they might not be 
here the next. 

The same day Mr. k Cooper of Pern. coll. preached 

before the judges, sir Robert Atkins, and sir Creswell 
Levinz, judges of the assize, and made a very seasonable 
sermon to them. 

Feb. 22. Or thereabout, the Convocation house being to be fitted 

up for the commons by raising a scaffold at the north 
end. All congregations till end of this term were cele- 
brated in St. Mary's chancel, and the candidates stood for 
their graces under Mallina Boys 1 his ra monument, and the 
Scios taken in Adam Broome's chapel. 

* Fasti Oxon. under the year are 7 sons and 5 daughters, all 
1680. W. & H. kneeling with this epitaph under 

k Robert. W. & H. Suavissimae matri Mallinae 

1 On the east wall of St. Mary's Boys, Antonius Boys filius, gra- 
church is a plate of brass fixed to titudinis et amoris ergo, una cum 
a marble, and thereon is engraven fratribus et sororibus superstiti- 
a woman kneeling before a table bus moerens posuit. 
with a book on it, and behind her 

Malle Mallina tuum gens omnis postera laudet 

Malle mori bene, quam vivere Malle male. 
Vita tibi in Christo, & Christo bene mortua vivis, 
Non moritur, quisquis vixerat ante Deo. 

Mortua est in Domino, Oxonii mense Augusti die XXV. 
anno aetatis suae LXX Anno autem Arms are, a Griffin ramp, parted 

ultimi temporis MDLXXXIII per fesse, within a bordure charged 



1 68 J.] LIFE OF WOOD. 227 

March 1 and 2 was the election for the knights of the 
shire. Sir John Cope, sir Edward Norrys, sir Philip 
Harcourt, and Tho. Hord, esq. stood, and 2 d March, in 
the morning, sir Phil. Harcourt and Tho. Hord carried 
it, the former a gentleman, but a Presbyterian, the other 
a most ill-natured man, and of no religion, he may be 
compared to Brome Whorwood; they agreed together, 
that they would give no entertainment, and none was 
given. 

The way leading down to the water at Magd. bridge, Mar. 
viz. from the gate leading into Magd. coll. kitchen yard 
down to the watering place was new pitched, and walled 
on the south side by the means of D r . Lamphire 
that collected monies from the colleges for that pur- 
pose. 

The king came into Oxford. i 4 . 

Or thereabouts, White Kenneths book came to Oxford, 15. 
entit. A Letter from a Student of Oxford &c. see what I 
have said in White Kennet. It came to Oxford against 
the parliament was to sit. It gave great offence to the 
factious party of the house of commons, who would have 
endeavoured to find out the author to have him punished, 
had they not been dissolved. The pamphlet by some pas- 
sages therein shews him not to be a scholar of Oxford, 
yet John French n and formerly of New college did pub- 
lickly say, that by several passages therein, it did appear 
to be written by a scholar of Oxford. Some of the house 
desired the vice-chancellor to make enquiry after the au- 
thor, and he would, but the parliament was suddenly dis- 
solved. 

alternately with Crosses Patee m Sic. W. & H. 

and Acorns : impaling a Chev. n Sic. W. & H. 

charged with 3 Lyons ramp, with- ° Athene Oxon. article 

out colours. W. & H. White Kennet. 

q2 



228 LIFE OF WOOD. [168*. 

The prices of all vendibles for the body of man and 
horse were stuck up in publick places. p 

P UNIVERS. OXON. 

The Prices of Provision, appointed by the reverend Timothy Halton, 
doctor of divinity, provost of Queen's colledge, and vice-chancellor 
to the most illustrious James duke of Ormond and chancellor of this 
University, His Majestie's clerk of this Market. Which prices all 
Sellers are required not to exceed. 

Imprimis a pound of butter, sweet and new, the best in the s. d. 

market o 6 

Item a pound of second butter, sweet and new o 5 

Item a pound of the best cheese o 2 ob 

Item a pound of second cheese o 2 

Item eggs, six for o 2 

Item a couple of capons, the best in the market 4 6 

Item a couple of second capons in the market 3 6 

Item a couple of chickens, the best in the market 
Item a couple of second chickens in the market 

Item a couple of fat pullets 2 o 

Item a dozen of pigeons, the best in the market 
Item a couple of fat green geese, the best in the market 
Item a couple of rabbets, the best in the market 
Item a couple of second rabbets 

Item a fat pigg, the best in the market 2 6 

Item a second pigg in the market 2 o 

Item a stone of the best beef at the butcher's, weighing 

eight pound avoyrdupois 2 o 

Item a stone of the second beef at the butcher's 1 8 

Item a quarter of the best weather mutton at the butcher's, 

by the pound o 3 obq 

Item a quarter of the second weather mutton at the 

butcher's, by the pound o 3 q 

Item a quarter of the best lamb at the butcher's, by the pound 

Item a quarter of the best veal at the butcher's, by the pound o 3 

Item a quarter of the second veal at the butcher's, by the 

pound o 2 ob 

Item a whole flitch of bacon, by the pound o 4 ob 

Item rib-bacon, by the pound o 6 

Item a pound of tallow candles made of wick o 4 ob 

Item a pound of cotton or watching candles o 5 

Item hay and litter day and night for one horse within 

every inn and livery stable o 8 



l68l.] LIFE OF WOOD. 229 

About 5 in the morning died D r , James Hyde, regins^May 7. 
professor of physick, and principal of Magd. hall, and 
was buried in an ile of St. Peter's in the East on the 9 th . 
at night; after his death, the fellows of Mag. coll. ques- 
tioning the chancellor's right of putting in principals into 
the halls, did in the absence of the president chuse to be 

s. d. 

Item a bushel of the best oats within every inn 2 8 

Item a bushel of the best beans within every inn 4 o 

Stuck up in all public places, 13 March 1680. (A. W.) 
Inter libros A. Wood, in mus. Ashm. 276. B. 

As a supplement to this programma the reader will be pleased to 
see the prices of different wines some years before. 
Oct. 21. 1667. 

Prizes of wines set and appointed by the vice-chancellor of the uni- 
versity of Oxford, according to which they are to be sold rateably 
in all measures. 

1. Canary wines, Allegant, and Muscadels, one shilling eight pence 

the quart, and no more. 

2. Sack and Mallagoes, one shilling sixpence the quart, and no more. 

3. French wines, nine pence the quart, and no more. 

4. Rhenish wines, one shilling two pence the quart, and no more. 

John Fell, vice-chan. 

Prizes of wines set and appointed by the vice-chancellor of the uni- 
versity of Oxford, according to which they are to be sold rateably in 
all measures, from and after the twenty seventh day of this instant 
February 1673. 

1. Canary wines, Alecant, and Muscadels, two shillings the quart, 

and no more — (before for several years at 2s. 2d. to the great 
resentment of all : who to make even money would either spend 
more or give the drawer the rest. This price was raised upon 
pretence of carriage.) 

2. Sack and Malagas one shilling ten pence the quart, and no more. 

3. French wines one shilling the quart, and no more. (Before for 

severall years is. id.) 

4. Rhenish wines, one shilling sixpence the quart, and no more. 

Ra. Bathurst, vice-chancel. 
Feb. 19. 1673. W. & H. 

1 Fasti Oxox. under the year 1646. W. & H. 



230 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 

principal Francis Smith, M. B. a fellow, 21 May 1681, 
and intending to seal up the hall gates with the college 
seal, to keep ont the vice-chancellor, was denied by the 
president newly returned, and admonished to the contrary 
by the bishop of Winchester, so that the vice-chancellor 
finding no opposition, did forthwith admit W>». Levett, 
D. D. originally of this hall, afterwards of C. C. C. and 
student of Ch. Ch. 1 June 1681. having been before nomi- 
nated by the chancellor. 1 " 
June 6. The outrage committed on the old lady Lovelace at 

Hunt's door against the Crown tavern between 8 and 9 
at night by Mr. Leopold Finch, son of the earl of Win- 
chelsea, lord Buckeley, and 2 gentlemen commoners, 
Luttrell one, and 4 scholars all of Ch. Ch. they plucked 
her out of her coach, and called her old protesting bitch, 
broke windows that night, and did many misdeameanours ; 
one of the students named Altham, nephew to Mr. Al- 
tham, sen r . student is expelled, the townsmen and other 
envious people report, that they should say, they called 
her Protestant bitch. The Bp. extremely troubled at it. 
They had been drinking at the Crown tavern. 
22. "Wednesday, early in the morning, St. Mary's bell rung 

out for Christopher Minshull, esq. beadle of divinity, 
who died with a fall from a horse between Abingdon 
and Lockyng, on the next day going before in the after- 
noon, buried in Lockyng church 24 th . day. s He was 
going there to see esq. Wiseman. Candidates for his 
place, tVilett, formerly of St. John's, 98 votes. Henry 
Robinson, M. A. of Ch. Ch. 45. u James Bayly, jun r . A.M. 



r Fasti Oxon. under the year to his brother Francis Minshull of 

1680. W. & H. London, 28 June, 1681.] 

s [He died, as I believe, intes- * Nicholas. W. & H. 

tate. Administration was granted u 46. ex reg. conv. W. & H. 



1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 231 

of Magd. 92. David *Wicklow, A. M. of New coll. 29.— 
23 d . a convocation, Vilett carried it by six votes. 

Mr. y- - - - of Pemb. coll. minister of Chipping Nor- July 5. 
ton, having a letter wherein he desired to be dispensed 
with for 7 terms absence, it was read in convocation, and 
he carried it by 10 votes, he stood for his grace, both his 
dispensations for terms and absence from lectures were 
denied but by one vote, he was denied on the 6 and 7th. 
Mr. [Thomas] Lyndesey, fellow of Wad. coll. and regent 
ad placitum carried in reasons against him to Mr. vice- 
chancellor, which were, that he canvassed some votes, 
that the same letter as to substance, form, date, and sub- 
scribers, was proposed on the 5th, which was denied in 
the convocation unanimously on the first ; but the vice- 
chancellor and the proctors rejected the reasons, and 
Lyndesey still insisting on them, Mr. vice-chancellor 
threatned to expell him both houses, and read the sta- 
tute for that end ; when his dispensation for non visiting 
and non circuiting z it was denied, and a scrutiny de- 
manded of Mr. vice-chancellor, which he at first denied, 
but some other masters standing up and demanding the 
same, the proctors took the votes, and it was carried but 
by one, Lyndesey excepting against Pinthurst of Pern, 
coll. having no vote. Mr. vice-chan. threatned to send 
him to the castle, if he dared to speak one word more in 
that business ; before the proctors went to scrutinize for 
his dispensation for not visiting, Lyndesey desired that 
Mr. vice-chan. would command all such masters who 
were there in congregation, and had no votes, either to 
go out of the house, or separate themselves from the rest, 
which they did. 



x Wickham, ex reg. conv. W. & H. 
y Supple, Edward Reddrop. W. & H. 
z F. was read. W. & H. 



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July 9. z. . _ . Sawyer, an inceptor of Mag. coll. spoke the 

musick speecli in the Musick school, whereas for 2 years 
before it was in the Theatre. The reason, as was pre- 
tended, why he did not speak it in the Theatre was, 
because, as the Bp. said, people broke down many things 
there to the charge of the university; but we all imagined 
the true reason to be, because he was not a Ch. Ch. man, 
and therefore would not allow him the Theatre to grace 
him. Grand partiality ! 

- - - - More, a TerrcB films of Merton came up on the 
Saturday, very dull, and because he reflected on S r . Tho. 
Spencer's doings with Souch his wife, his son, who was 
there, cudgelled him afterwards in the Row-Buck yard, 
dogged him to the place with another. 

10. Sunday, D r . [John] Younger an inceptor of Magd. 
preached in the morning, and D r . b Fowler of C. C. C. in 
the afternoon. 

1 1. Monday, [Matthias] Henvill of New-Inn hall (a married 
man) and the other Terra filius made up what was want- 
ing on Saturday, full of waggery and roguery, but little wit. 

2 y. - - - - Paynton the town clerk died, and was buried in 

Carfax church on the 29th. c (Quaere.) 

z Thomas. W. & H. to Eliz. Reeve in the chap, of St. 

8 [I believe John Mower to be Barthelmew's hospitall, 24 Aug. 

the person here meant. He was a 1628. by whome he had issue 

native of Gloucestershire, matr. John, who putting this coat of 

1675, B.A. 1678, M.A. 1681.] *armes on a monument over his 

b Edward. Fasti Oxon. un- children in St. Martin's church, 

der the year 1 68 1. W. Dugdale K. of armes com- 

c John Paynton, sometimes manded him, at my request, to 

mace-bearer to the mayor of pull it downe or take new, be- 

Oxon. died 17. Feb. 1678. setat. cause this coat belonged to the 

86, and more, and was buried in worshipfull family of the Peytons 

St. Martin's church. Son of in Kent, wherefore the said John 

Paynton, sometimes embroiderer Paynton, in July 1679, did pur- 

to K.James. He was married chase another coat. 

* S. on a Cross ingr. o. a Lozeng. g. a mullet in ye first quarter (ar) or. 



1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 233 

Prince was chosen town clerk. Aug. i. 

Mr. King of St. Mary hall was chosen by the univer- 8. 
sity vicar of Seiceston in Leicestershire, ag f . Thompson of 
Line, and Vaughan of Edmund hall. 

At 8 at night the high sheriff brought into Oxford, in »5- 
his coach Stephen Colledge, the Protestant joyner from 
Henley, guarded by his men with naked swords, and so 
put him into the castle. A guard of 2 halberdiers set at 
St. Clements that night. 

Died Hen. Denton, d M. A. rector de Blechington, and 17. 
buried in the church 18. 

D r . Marshall of Line. coll. preached before the judges 
at St. Mary's, judge [Francis] North, sir Creswell Levinz, 
[Thomas] Raymond, and S r . Tho. Jones ; thence they 
went to the Guild hall yard, where they sat from 9 to 12, 
and adjourned till two ; between 2 and 3 they met, and 
did not conclude till 3 in the morning, at which time the 
jury pronounced him guilty, upon which there was a very 
great shout, and one of Bristol (who came purposely to 
the trial) being louder than the rest was sent prisoner to 
the castle after a time ; at 10 the said morning the judges 
met again, and pronounced sentence. 

Wednesday at 11. Stephen College, born at Watford in 31. 
Hertfordshire, nephew to Edmund College of St. Peter's 

John Paynton, town-clerk of left issue by Anne his wife .... 

the citie of Oxford, son of John Creast is a demy Lyon ram- 

Paynton sometimes macebearer to pant crown'd or. holding between 

the mayor, died at his house in it's two pawes a Lozenge g 

St. Aldate's parish, 28 July 1681, granted with the coat by Will 

aged 53, and was buried in St. Dugdale, Garter, and Hen. St 

Martin's church by his father, George, Clar. Knt. in July 1679 

and also by the grave of his wife, Wood's MSS. in mus. Ashm 

Anne, daug. of Thomas Shreive of 8466. W. & H. 

Wytham in Berkshire neare Oxon. d Fasti Oxon. under the year 

which Anne died 5 Feb. i68f, 1659. W. & H. 
a ged 35- The said John Paynton 



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in the Bayly, suffered death by hanging in the castle yard 
Oxon, and when he had hanged about half an hour was 
cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered, under the 
gallows, his entrails were burnt in a fire made by the gal- 
lows. He spoke and prayed more than half an hour, his 
body was, after quartering, put into a coffin, and the same 
day was conveyed to London, and buried privately the 
Thursday following at night in St. Gregory's church near 
St. Paul's.e 



e [To his loving and most dear 
children Stephen and Edith Col- 
ledge with my blessing to you 

My dear children 
Stephen ^ 

and > Colledge 
Edith J 

The Lord God Almighty bless 
keep and preserve you both in 
your Souls and Bodies : and grant 
you his grace that ye may above 
all thing seek his honour and 
glory, to your own eternal com- 
fort both here and hereafter. 
Keep his laws; read his holy 
word, which is able with his grace 
to make you wise to salvation. Be 
sure to keep his holy Sabbaths to 
the end of your lives. Be con- 
stant in prayer as for your lives, 
and let not one day or night pass 
over your heads without that duty. 
Frequent sermons, where you 
find them best preached in all 
truth and sincerity. Take the sa- 
crament of the Lord Jesus Christ 
his last supper: and be sure to 
keep faithfully what is there given 
you in charge : and lead your 
lives accordingly. Live honestty, 
soberly, quietly and justly, and if 
possibly peaceably, with all men. 



Abstain yourselves from all man- 
ner of evil. Quell all evil thoughts 
that shall attempt you, in the 
bud. Resist the Devill in his 
very first attempts, and he will 
fly from you. Be duty full to my 
dear mother. Be truly loving (for 
my sake) to each other and all 
your relations. I desire that 
Edith, Betty and yourself may 
live together untill such time your 
sister is grown up, and God shal 
otherwise dispose of you. Pray 
follow your private calling quietly. 
Have a care of what company you 
keep, and whom you ever trust : 
and leave the righting of my 
wrongs to God Almighty. And 
be sure you take my death pa- 
tiently; as, I thank my God, I 
doe. My best duty to my mo- 
ther ; my love to my sister Ruth 
and her husband, and to every 
particular person you know my 
friends, as if I named them: with 
my dearest love, hearty affections, 
and blessings to you both, my 
most dearly beloved children, 
whos faces I must never more 
behold in earth; therefore heaven 
be the place where through the 
merits of Christ I hope to meet 



1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 235 

In this month of August died at or neare Hungerford f 
- - - - Bennet of Ch. Ch. who was beneficed there, he 
corrected the press at the Theatre from 1669 to 1677, 
and then was curate to D r . [Anthony] Saunders at Ac- 
ton, thence he removed towards Hungerford : he wrote 
Notes on Oxford Grammar. 

[John] Troughton, a blind man, sometime fellow of St. 
John's, died 20 Aug. at Mr. Sheer's house in Allhallows 
parish, and buried at Bicister church 22 Aug. a moderate 
non- conformist, the best scholar of them all, well studied 
in the schoolmen, born in Coventry; ob. setat. 46, or 
thereabouts. 

In convocation commissioners appointed by the chan- Oct. 7. 
cellor to govern the university, or to order matters in the 
chancellor's absence, viz. the vice-chancellor, D r . Fell, D r . 
Clarke, D r . Bathurst, D r . James, D r . Marshall, D r . Jane; 
D r . Marshall in the place of D r . Yates deceased, and D r . 
Jane in the place of D r . Allestree. 

Sunday, between 10 and 11 in the morning, Mr. »Car- 23. 



you all. My tears stop my pen : This letter of Stephen College 

farewell, my dear dear dear chil- to his children, after his condem- 

dren. I am nation and before his execution, 

Your dying Father was coppyed out of the original.] 

Stephen Colledge. f Thomas. Vide Fasti Oxox. 

Oxon August 30 th . 1 68 1. under the year 1669. W. & H. 

I have sent each of you a Book s [William Cardonel or de Car- 
pray make a good use of them donel, the son of Peter Cardonel 
while life lasts. Stephen pray do of London, gentleman, was edu- 
not endeavour after that folly of cated at Westminster, matricu- 
Riming, for on my word it will latedof Magdalen college, Apr, 14, 
do you hurt therefore let me de- 1671, and proceeded to the degree 
sire you to leave it. of B. A. as a member of that 

house, Oct. 29, 1674, M. A. Jan. 

The above is taken from a copy 29, 1677. He was afterwards 

in the handwriting of Dr. Wallis, elected to a fellowship at Merton. 

who has added at the end of it, He had a younger brother, Peter 



236 LIFE OF WOOD. [l68l. 

donnel hanged himself in his bed chamber on his door, 
discovered by his maid after 12 of the clock : he had only 
his shirt and night cap on, and there he hnng till between 
7 and 8 at night, and then by the coroner and jnry com- 
ing and seeing him, there pronounced that he was not 
compos mentis, about 11 at night he was buried stark 
naked in the vestry yard on the south side of the chan- 
cel ; he was troubled in conscience, for cheating the col- 
lege of 3/. or 41. when he was bursar the year before, and 
troubled for the warden's misusing him for another matter, 
as he thought. When he was bursar last Spring or de- 
puty bursar, sent the gardener to him for money due to 
the gardener for doing work in the warden's garden, Mr. 
Cardonnel not being in a right humour, bid the warden 
be hanged, he should have no money, the gardener told 
the warden these words, the warden took affidavit of it, 
drew up a recantation, which being shewn the fellows, 
Cardonnel at a meeting read it, but this stuck so close 
to him, that bringing a melancholy fit on him, he could 
never shake it off. In June or Aug. before, he threw 
himself into the water in Mag. walks to drown himself, 
but could not effect it. 

Much rain yet mild, so that in my walk between Hed- 
dington hill and Heddington on the 16 of Dec r . I gathered 
ears of rye, and the corn there was so high and forward, 
that before that time they were forced to graze it, and 
mow it. In the said months of Dec. and Jan. were garden 
peas in blossom. 
Nov. 2. Wednesday, Ben. Wood chose child of Winchester school- 

3. Oxford feast, W m . Howell of New Inn hall, preached 

de Cardonel, elected to Christ before Apr. 20, 1699, when ad- 
Church from Westminster in ministration was granted to his 
1678; B.A. Nov. 10, 1682. M.A. sister Mary Lovell alias Cardonel 
June 13, 1685. He died intestate of Cripplegate London.] 



1 68 1.] LIFE OF WOOD. 237 

at St. Peter's, the son of Howell the taylor, since an 
author. h 

Westminster school boys burnt Jack Presbyter instead 
of the pope. 

Mr. Ralph Sheldon of Weston was in town, and he told 
me that the earl of Dorset, S r . Cyril Wych, Mr. Vaughan 
the earl of Carbury's son, and Fleetwood Shepheard went 
last Michaelmas to Paris to visit Henry Savill the English 
embassador there, where at this time they were enjoying 
themselves, talking blasphemy and atheism, drinking and 
perhaps what is worse. 

Mr. Edw. Slater of our coll. accounted an inconsider- 
able scholar, preached a most eloquent sermon at St. 
Mary's in the afternoon, to the astonishment of the 
audience. 

Musick Lecturers. 
1661 [Richard] Torless of St. John's. 

[John] Fitz-Williams of Magd. coll. [probationer.] 
1664 Mr. [Thomas] Jeamson of Wadh. 

1672 — 

1673 [Anthony] Wolveridge All Souls. 

1674 Charles Holt of Magd. coll. 

1675 [Francis] Slatter of C. C. C. 
1676 Jesus coll. 

1677 [Richard] Strickland of Magd. coll. [fellow.] 

1678 John Grubb of Ch. Ch. 

1679 James Allestree of Ch. Ch. in the Theatre. 

1680 s Northon of Ch. Ch. in the Theatre. 

1681 [Thomas] Sawyer [demy] of Magd. coll. in the 

Musick school. 

Terrse filii. 
1657 Danvers of Trinity. 
1660 No act. 

h See Athene Oxon. W. & H. 



238 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 

1661 

Field, i Die Lun. Terr. fil. of Trin. 

1662 No act. 

1663 John Edwards of Trin. Saturni. 
Jos. Brooks of Ch. Ch. die L/ance. 

1664 Ric. Wood Joan. Saturni. 
W m . Cave Magd. coll. die Luna. 

1665, 1666, 1667, 1668, no acts, the Theatre in building. 

1669 Hen. Gerard Wadh. Batumi. 

Tho. Hayes ^En. Nasi, die Lun. M. D. in 1669. 

1670 No act. 

1671 — 

Nich. Hall coll. Wad. die Lance. 
1675 Venables Keeling sed. Christi. 

1682. 1675 from Mich, term that year to Mich, term 1676 

33 Car. II. no DO dy matriculated at Glouc. hall, not one in 1678. 
Jan. 20. A messenger, at ten at night, came from the king to 

D r . Halton the vice-chancellor, that he cause the professor 
of Arabick and others to make a true translation of the 
emperor of Morocco's letter, sent lately by his embas- 
sador, which k were differently interpreted in many mate- 
rial points by a jew and secretary to the embassy; the 
jew false, the secretary true. 
Feb. 3. Ric. Souch, B. A. of Pern. coll. fil. Ric. S. de Oxon. pleb. 

(lately chorister, squint-eyed, of C. C. C. setat. 16) son of 
Rich. Souch milliner was found hanged in his chamber 
at Pern. coll. early in the morning; it is said he hung 
himself on Wednesday night, buried in St. Aldate's church 
near his grandmother, touched in her head — . 
10. Friday, the burgers or citizens of Oxford appeared in 

their full number on St. Scholastica's day at St. Mary's. 
Alderman Wright their oracle told them that if they did 
i Sic in MS. k Sic. 



1682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 239 

not appear, there might be some hole picked in their 
charter, as there was now endeavouring to be done in 
that of the city of London; he told them moreover, 
that though it was a popish matter, yet policy ought to 
take place in this juncture of time. 

Monday, the first stone of New college new quadrangle 13- 
was laid by the warden, near the gate of the quadrangle 
leading to the garden, where now the new common chamber 
is on the south side. 

Thursday, the king in his own person laid the first l6 - 
stone for an hospital for maimed soldiers at Chelsea, 
where the college founded by D r . Math. Suckliffe was 
sometime standing. 

The university at this time, and this last Winter is 
very thin, and the townsmen complain for want of their 
company, reason is, (1st) because ever and anon are re- 
ports that the king will hold a parliament here, which 
deters them from coming for fear of being forced to quit 
their quarters. 

(2) All those that we call Whigs and side with the 
parliament against the duke of York, will not send their 
sons for fear of their being Tories. 

(3) That since the bishops have taken grant of the king, 
for not disinheriting the duke of York, the said bishops 
and consequently the universities are taken to be popish. 

Note that not 20 persons have been matriculated from 
Christmas to Egg Saturday, whereas 120 have been ma- 
triculated in the years past, but a great many came in 
before Lent term was done. 

Lord Sherard^s son a nobleman of Exeter coll. died of 19- 
a violent fever. l 

1 [Nov. 28. 1681. Coll. Exon. fil. nat. Stapleford in Leicestrise 
Christoph. Sherraid 15 D. Bene- com. Register of Matriculations, 
dicti de Trim, in Hib. Baronis A. g. 378.] 



240 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 

25. Egg Saturday : betimes in the morning, was a male 

child found by the porter of Mag. coll. without the col- 
lege gate, about 4. days or a week old, christned Matthias 
at m East. 
*6. Another flood by a great deal of rain, that fell about a 

week before. 
Mar. 2. Given to Mr. A. 5s. to be given to Wh. Kennet for 

pains he hath taken for me in Kent. 

9- At night came into Oxford judge Levinz, and judge 

Atkins, viz. sir Creswell Levinz and sir Edward Atkins, 
and on the 10 th . in the morning D r . Hammond of Ch. Ch. 
preached before them an excellent sermon, Mr. Mayott 
being high sheriff. 

13- Thomas Sutton lately of our hall, but then of Bal. coll. 

was elected scholar of C. C. C. in a Hampshire place. 

At the latter end of March, and the beginning of this 
month, was a collection in every college and hall, as also 
in every parish in Oxford, for succour and relief of poor 
Protestants that were lately come into England upon a 
persecution in France ; people gave liberally. 

l6 - Convocation about D r . Busby's lecture. 

20. Convocation in the afternoon, wherein the foundation 

of D r . Rich. Busby's divinity lecture was proposed, the 
masters generally denied it. The vice-chanc r . asked whe- 
ther they denied the founding of the lecture itself, or the 
conditions ? They replied the conditions. Then the vice- 
chancellor proposed, that there might be delegates pro- 
posed to consider of a way to settle to the minds of all 
parties, cum relatione ad domum. The conditions are so 
that it will be five to one, that a Ch. Ch. man must be 
reader, that also all that take their degrees, must be 
approved by him, and he must be one that must give 
testimony. 

m F. St. Peter's in the. W. & H. 



1 682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 241 

Between half an hour after 8 and 10 in the morning Apr. 7. 
Edmund hall chapel was consecrated by D r . John Fell, 
bishop of Oxford, very privately ; none but the vice-chan- 
cellor, chancellor of the diocese, D r . Hammond of Ch. Ch. 
D r . Mill of Queen's, 5 or 6 of the fellows of Queen's, being 
present, with 3 of the sen 1 ", fellows of New coll. and those 
of Edmund hall; it was dedicated to S. Edmund arch- 
bishop of Canterbury. 

Charles Harris, one of the B. n or the mayor's associates, 
(son of John Harris, taylor, lately mayor) proposed the 
beginning of this month to the mayor and common coun- 
cil, that being minded to found an hospital in the city of 
Oxford, desired them to part with a piece of ground be- 
longing to them, upon considerable terms ; they deny it, 
shew themselves clowns in the matter; he resigns his 
place thereupon, and leaves them ; beloved afterwards by 
the scholars. 

Monday; Convocation about D r . Busby's catechetical May 8. 
lecture, the pros and cons from 2 till a quarter after 4 in 
the afternoon. 

Congregation, wherein two bachelors of physic and one 16. 
bachelor of law were to be presented. The professor of 
law would present his first, the professor of physic denied 
it, because B rs . °was M. A. the controversy hot, and 
neither of them was presented at that time, but after- 
wards proceeded in several congregations, viz. the bachelor 
of law of St. John's in a congregation the 23 d , and Ery 
of Trin. and Gould of Wadham, bachelors of physic the 
next day. 

It seems in a congregation, May 2, one P - - Conny of 
Mag. coll. M. A. was to be presented bach, of physick, 

n Bailiffs. p Robert. Fasti Oxon. under 

Sic. W. & H. the year 1685. W. & H. 

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242 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 

and because Bullard q of New college was then to be pre- 
sented L. L. B. the vice-chancellor did cause the said 
L. L. B. to be presented before the other, wherefore the 
bach, of physick denied, and protested against it. 
29. But one bonfire to be seen in the four great streets by 

any tradesmen, whereas there have been seen 20. - - - 
Southby, B. A. r was denied his degree for speaking trea- 
sonable words on the first of June. 

In this month came to Oxford a book newly published, 
entit. the Life of Julian the Apostate &c. said to be written 
by one Sam. Johnson, s minister in Essex or Sussex, after- 
wards chaplain to W m . Lord Russell — this book was 
much rec d . into the hands of scholars, talked of, and 
preached also against from our pulpits, particularly by one 
John Mills in his sermon on Act Sunday this year; in 
the afternoon George Royse M. A. and fellow of Oriel, 
who took his principles to task, and exposed them very 
smartly, but without naming the author, or Julian the 
Apostate; there is an answer to it in a thin folio, sup- 
posed to be written by Mr. Meredith of Ch. Ch. D r . Hen. 
Aldrich preached against it in a sermon at Ch. Ch. Oct. 
29. on 3 James 17, 1 st part, he took two of the author's 
most specious arguments to pieces, and refelled them very 

1 [Wood means John Ballard, had his grace for M. A. denied on 

son of John B. of New Sarum, the ground that he had "made it 

Wilts, matr. of Edmund hall Mar. his businesse in all company s to 

1 8, 1 674, became fellow of New col- speake scandalously of the go- 

lege, proceeded B.A. Mayi5, 1679, vernement, and particularly justi- 

B. C. L. May 2, 1682, then M.A. fyed the murder of the old king, 

July 4, 1682, B. Med. July 3, 1685, saying, It was a glorious action, 

and D. Med. Dec. 7, 1688.] and done in the face of the na- 

r [This was Strange Southby, tion." Reg. Congreg. Univ. Owon. 

the son of Richard S. of Carswell, Be. f. 19.] 

Berks, gentl., matr. of Magdalen s Athene Oxon. article 

hall Apr. 3, 167-2., aet. 17. Hepro- George Hickes. W. & H. 
ceeded B.A. Oct. 23, 1677, and 



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clearly, and orator Wyatt, about 5 or 6 weeks after, on 
the same text, this last had only one or two smart things 
at Julian. 

Saturday, Convocation, wherein Busby's lecture 1 was June 17. 



1 Many reflections equally un- 
generous and unjust have been 
cast upon the universities for re- 
fusing to accept of Dr. Busby's 
intended donation, by which re- 
fusal the * church is said to have 
suffered, a circumstance which a 
late writer has not omitted to set 
in the fullest point of view, f It 
appears, from what Mr. A. W. 
has here observed, that the insti- 
tution "was rejected solely on ac- 
count of the terms and conditions 
annexed to it, which rendered it, 
at least, less agreeable to the uni- 
versities, if not impossible to be 
accepted by them, consistently 
with their statutes. W. & H. 
[Die Saturni viz : 1 7 die Mensis 
Junii An°. Dni. 1682. Causa 
Convocationis erat, ut Litera? 
ab illustrissimo Cancellario, nee 
non a veneli viro Doctore Busby 
ad senatum datae legerentur. 
To the Reverend D r . Timothy 
Halton Provost of Queen's 
College and Vice-chancellor 
of the University of Oxford 
humbly pt. these. 

Reverend Sir, 

Several years have past since I 

made a tender to my ever honor'd 

Mother, the University of Oxford, 

of a Catechetic Lecture to be en- 



dowed by me with a Salary, lately 
advanced to fourscore pounds per 
annum by a rentcharge upon a 
greater Estate, which might se- 
cure the payment from any defal- 
cation or encombrance. In this 
time I have frequently repeated 
the overture, and waited for the 
acceptance of it. Also when ever 
I understood that an objection 
was made against the terms pro- 
posed by me, I accordingly altered 
them. 

And whereas not long since the 
affair was proposed in Convoca- 
tion with a draught of such rules 
and orders as might finally settle 
it; and that then the University 
was pleased by an unanimous vote 
to approve of the intendment, but 
withall express' d a dislike to se- 
veral conditions affix't thereto : 
That I may evidence my steddy 
purpose of serving my Mother in 
the Endowment she was pleased 
to accept, and my earnest desire 
to comply with her good pleasure 
in the manner of it's disposal : 
Since the foundation of every Lec- 
ture of which the Candidats of 
inferior Degrees are auditors, and 
of such sort a Catechetic Lecture 
must be, do's according to the 
Statutes involve an Examination, 
and that the quaestion has been 



* See the Life of Humphrey PrideaiLV, D. D. 8vo. 1748. pag. 92. 
f The Confessional, 3d. edit. Lond. 1770. 

r2 



244 



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[1682. 

again disputed and denied, his letters were read to the 
university, wherein he desired that two more of his nomi- 



Who should be the Examiners, 
and that Regent Masters who have 
onely proceeded in Arts, may not 
seem with decency to take upon 
them to be judges of proficiency 
in the supreme faculty of Theo- 
logy : I therefore offer it to con- 
sideration, Whether the Doctors 
and Bachelors in Divinity, or 
either of them, will be pleased to 
be warn'd in turne to examin 
what progresse is made by the 
Candidats of y e Degree of Bache- 
lor of Arts in the fundamentals 
of Christian knowledge relating 
to their faculty; as the Regent 
Masters are obliged to examine 
in those Arts which referr to 
their's ; which if they will vouch- 
safe to doe, I shall be well satis- 
fyed in that behalfe. But if it be 
thought more reasonable that he 
who has the Salary assigned unto 
the Lecture should also have the 
trouble of examining the auditors 
of it ; onely that he ought not to 
be trusted with a negative in De- 
grees, tho' that power is allowed 
to every visitable Master, I readily 
assent that there may always lye 
an appeale from the Professor 
either to the Vice-chancellor and 
Proctors, or to the Congrega- 
tion. 

Secondly, as to the Choice of 
the Professor, altho I thinke that 
is every where used to be left to 
the free arbitrement of the Foun- 
der, yet I shall in condescension 
be willing that y e University do 



adde two Doctors in Divinity unto 
those whom I have already nomi- 
nated. 

Lastly, whereas the reading a 
Catechetic Lecture in English at 
St. Maries which was intended 
principally for the benefitt of y e 
children and servants of the pri- 
vileged persons and others that 
had not y e ready use of the Latine 
tongue, has been thought an En- 
combrance upon the Latin Lec- 
ture to be read at the Schooles 
and designed for the advantage 
onely of the Scholars and Stu- 
dents, I shall proceed, out of my 
ardent desire to serve my Mother 
herein more, to add a separat En- 
dowment for the said English 
Lecture of Twenty Pounds per 
Annum secured in the same man- 
ner with the Latin ; and shall en- 
tirely leave the Choice of the Pro- 
fessor thereof to the disposal of 
the University ; other things, mu- 
tatis mutandis, alike. 

This I request you, Reverend 
S r . be pleasd to communicat 
with my due respects to my ever 
honor'd Mother the University, 
that if she shall now please to 
accept of this my Oblation, I may 
hasten the settlement of it, or if 
still it be refused, which I passion- 
ately deprecat, I am forct to divert 
my thoughts speedily to some 
other more fortunat disposall, my 
Age and Infirmities making de- 
lays very grievous to me. 

What ever determination it 



1682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 245 

nation should be added to the five electors pitched upon 
in the last convocation, but those two he naming not, and 
the masters being jealous that they should be of Ch. Ch. 
denie all. Letters then read for bishop Brideoake's son of 
Trinity to be M. A. five terms given to him, and to go out 
grand compounder, and granted, he went B. A. at 9 terms 
standing, so that he will be master at four years standing. 

After Busby's letters, were read the chancellor's letters 
for regulating the rudeness and miscarriage of the masters 
in convocation, seconded by Laud's letter for that pur- 
pose, about rising from their seats, going up to the vice- 
chancellor's seat, and quarrelling with one another. 

Mr. u John Fairclough, vulgo Featley, a non- conforming July 10. 
minister, was buried in the fanatical burial place, near the 
Artillery yard London ; 500 persons accompanied him to 
his grave, amongst whom D r . Tillotson and Stillingfleet, 
and other conformable ministers were present. 

In July and August was the high way from near the 
end of St. Clement's church to the way leading to Marston 
pitched with pebbles, and the paths or flankers with hard 
white stones ; began and carried on by D r . Lamphire with 
a collection of money. The workmen were in pitching it, 
July, August, September, and part of October; a contri- 
bution amongst scholars and some townsmen. 

Act 1682 musick lectures by W m . Lloyd of Jes. coll. 
in the musick school, very well, but somewhat smutty. 

Terra filii, [Henry] Bowles of New coll. on Saturday, 

shall please the University to Hasce Literas per Procuratorem 
make, I shall ever retaine that seniorem publicatas Venelis Do- 
Veneration which beseems mus Convocationis non approba- 
Her most dutiful Son, vit. Reg. Conv. Univ. Oxon. 
and Reverend Sir T b. 331.] 
Your most obliged Servant, u Richard. See Athene 
Richard Busby. Oxon. under the year 1666. 
West'. Coll. May 25. — 82. W.& H. 



246 life of wood. [1682. 

much against Ch. Ch. James Allestree of Ch. Ch. Monday, 
much against New college, and the Terra films of Satur- 
day, but replyed by the said Terra filius being proproctor, 
for Dingley jun r . proctor, both very well, and gave great 
content. 

Preachers on Sunday, Humphrey Humphreys of Jes. 
coll. dean of Bangor, in the morning; John Mills of 
Queen's in the afternoon. 

Stephen Penton, principal of Edmund hall, Tuesday's 
Latin sermon. 

In this month, August, Roger L'Estrange had 200 
guineas sent him as a present from the members of the 
university of Cambridge (of which he had been a student) 
in doing great service for the king and church, when the 
fanaticks laid hold of the Popish plot to carry on their 
designs. 
Sept. 6. A fire broke out, between 7 and 8 at night, at a baker's 

house joyning on the east side to the back part of Swan 
court in St. Mary parish, burnt that part where it began, 
and an alehouse, on each side, pulled down to prevent 
further mischief. These houses belong to Arthur Tillyard, 
by virtue of a lease from Oriel college. 
7. Oxford feast, Dalby, son of a taylor against Bal. coll. 

preached. 
n. Saturday at night died at Radley Mr. John Winchurst, 

M. A. and fellow of Pern. coll. and vicar of - - -, at 
Radley buried in the church 14, a good scholar, of a subtil 
head, a good mathematician, born at Abendon, his father 
was a malster and mayor. 

Notwithstanding the bonfires on the queen's birth-day, 
15 Nov. and 17 Nov. were prohibited by the king and 
council on the desire of sir William Prichard, lord mayor, 
to prevent tumult, yet the factious people being hindred 
from burning the pope, they drowned him. 



1682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 247 

Mr. Bernard told me that - - - Wilgoose, M. A. of 18. 
Brazen nose, afterwards schoolmaster of Denton, a prac- 
ticioner in physick there, and after schoolmaster of - - - 
in Huntingdonshire, died at Paris 23 Oct. according to 
our account, and 3 d . Nov. according to theirs, being then 
in the company or companion to the earl of Manchester. 

Saturday, M r *. - - - Clark, daughter to D v . Clark, pre- 
sident of Mag. coll. was married to Mr. [Richard] Shuttle- 
worth, gent, commoner of Trinity coll. she was commonly 
called the Infanta, both of them made about 33 years. x 

Mr. Tho. Spark of Ch. Ch. made a speech in SchoM'Sov. ii 
linguarum inter Hor. 3 £f 4. in praise of sir Tho. Bodley, 
founder of the publick library, by the nomination of the 
dean of Ch. Ch. and the approbation of the vice-chan- 
cellor. 

Bonfires made in several parishes in Oxford by the 27. 
Tory party after supper, for joy that the lord N orris was 
made earl of Abingdon, with the ringing of bells, several 
colleges had bonfires, All Souls especially, about 11 at 

x [Dr. Henry Clerke's will was dalen college, with y e good leaue 
dated at Gawthrop Hall, the seat of the officers, till he comes to age, 
of sir R. Shuttleworth, 10 March, and shall haue performd y e con- 
i68f, and proved 13 April follow- ditions aforesaid. " I giue to my 
ing. In it 1 find the following dearest child y e Lady Shuttle- 
items : " I giue and bequeath to worth my picture sett w th dia- 
my dearely beloued sonne in law monds valued at but 60Z. and also 
S r . Richard Shuttleworth knight a gilt box w th 30 gynnyes in it. 
as an addition to my daughter's " I giue and bequeath to Clerke 
portion already payd, to be payd Shuttleworth y e summe of fifty 
to him when he comes to age and pounds : to my other two grand- 
makes a right settlement of his children twenty pound apiece, 
estate according to law, and a "I giue and bequeath unto my 
ioynture of good land upon his college, the summe of fifty pounds 
deare wyfe, one full summe of a to be layd out in a gilded Bole 
thousand pound, to be placed in with a cover, and to be placed 
a red trunke in y e upper roome of upon the altar."] 
y e Tower of Evidences in Mag- 



248 LIFE OF WOOD. [1682. 

night they brought out a barrel of beer out of the cellar, 
and drank it in healths on their knees to the duke of 
York and earl of Abingdon, out of the buckets that hung 
up in the hall. They got about twenty of the trained 
bands of Oxford, who discharged at the drinking of every 
health; they had wine in great plenty from the tavern 
over the way, guarded by a file of musqueteers ; they had 
a drummer that beat round the college quadrangle, and 
at the gate : D r . Clotterbuck the captain that ordered 
these matters. 

In this month was the history of St. John Baptist, over 
our coll. gate, repaired and new oyled over in white co- 
lours, with the picture of king Henry 3 rd . and the founder; 
it had been defaced in Oliver's reign, a picture of an old 
man sitting in a chair over that, with a glove in his right 
hand, cut down in Oliver's reign, the babe in the virgin's 
hands over this taken away. 
Dec 13. Hec d . then ten guineas of Mr. R. S. to stop my mouth: 
he acknowledged that he did promise to print my book, 
but the times are since altered, and not able, yet he is 
able enough to throw away 200/. or 300/. to alter his 
house for the sake of the M. of H. and to give her and 
her brothers what they pleased 



y [This passage requires expla- pleasure to himself and much to 

nation. It alludes to Ralph Shel- the satisfaction of his entertainer, 

don of Beoly, the representative who appears throughout to have 

of an ancient Roman Catholic fa- behaved with the greatest kind- 

mily, himself a lover and preserver ness to him, and with much for- 

of antiquities, and a gentleman of bearance in respect to the oddities 

high principle and genuine hospi- of his temper and disposition, 

tality. Of Wood's first acquaint- Wood however expected more 

ance with Mr. Sheldon we have than was perhaps in Mr. Shel- 

an account at p. 178, and it is don's power to bestow, and 

certain that for some years our amongst other things flattered 

author visited at Beoly, with great himself that Mr. S. would have 



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249 



Mr. John White of Baliol, son of S r . Sampson, preached 1683. 

34 Car. II. 



undertaken the charge of print- 
ing his history of the university, 
although there nowhere appears 
any reasonable ground for the 
supposition. It is not impossible 
that some casual expressions of 
good will and promises of assist- 
ance, on the part of the generous 
and open-hearted Sheldon, were 
construed by our author into a 
literal and absolute promise; and 
that, on discovering his mistake, 
his disappointment led him to 
imagine himself injured and de- 
ceived. Hence arose an interrup- 
tion to their usual intercourse, 
and although it is clear that Shel- 
don did all in his power to re- 
move the antiquary's prejudice, 
and gave him every opportunity 
of renewing their former friend- 
ship, the effort did not succeed. 
The 10I. that Wood, in a fit of ill 
humour, calls a bribe, was, I sus- 
pect, an annual present on the 
part of Mr. Sheldon, and con- 
tinued till his death. Subjoined 
are some of Mr. Sheldon's letters 
to the Oxford antiquary, from the 
originals in the Ashmolean mu- 
seum, which shew the character 
of the writer to great advantage. 

The M. of H. was Miss Frances 
Sheldon, a cousin of Mr. Shel- 
don's, maid of honour to queen 
Catharine, who resided at Beoly. 
Wood was on very good terms 
with the maid of honour. " You 
will receiue this (says Sheldon, in 
a letter dated Mar. 13, i6fy) from 
the hands of Delitice humani ge- 



neris, as you are pleased to term 
her, and I assure you shee takes 
high content in thinking shee 
liues in your esteeme." 

July 23, 1677. 
S r . This is to let you know 
that I shall leaue this towne on 
W'enesday in order to comming 
home to Weston, but I shall make 
some staves for flue or six dayes 
at Mapledurham and Sherborne : 
now you know my lady Aberga- 
uenny would be glad to see you 
at Sherborne; if therefore you 
haue a mind to come, write to 
mee, and I will send a man and 
horses for you; for it is but ten 
miles from Oxford to Sherborne. 
Send your letter hither to my 
house and it will come safe to 
mee. I hope you receaued the 
last packet I sent by the coach- 
man. I haue no more at pre- 
sent, but wish y u all heart's con- 
tent. Yours cordially 

Raphe Sheldon. 

Warwick Gaole 

Decemb. 6, 1678. 
For M r . Anthony Wood lodging 
ouer against the great gate of 
Merton Colledge Oxon. 

Oxford. 
S r . I haue yours of the first in- 
stant and thanke you heartily for 
enquiring after my wellfare : I 
thanke God I haue my health, 
and my Innocency keepes mee 
from being any whit dejected. I 
walke in my chamber and talke 
to myselfe when I haue no other 



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LIFE OF WOOD. 



[1683. 



Jan. 3. the fast sermon at St. Mary's, very satirical, and bitter 
against the fanaticks. 



company, and then (to my com- 
fort) I solace myselfe with read- 
ing; in so much that the time doth 
not seeme long at all : though I 
should bee glad to bee at home 
again ; but of that I haue no pros- 
pect as yet. And as for Weston 
(though I am not there) you may 
commaund any thing there and 
will bee welcome thither at any 
time, if you thinke you can liue at 
more quiet ; there you will [have] 
the Library cum m. et pertinen- 
tijs at your seruice. I am glad 
your graue Vice- Chan celour hath 
visited your closet, though it were 
a little disturbance to your study, 
yet (I hope) hee and the vniuer- 
sity are sensible of all that ridicu- 
lous aspersion that is laid vpon 
innocent men. But old Epipha- 
nius sayes 

" Sancti viri, quia nihil huius 
mundi appetunt, nullis procul- 
dubio in corde tumultibus appe- 
tuntur — " 

I wish you all heart's content, 
and desire to bee euer 

Your's cordially 

R. S. 

Weston Janu. 9. i6f£. 
S*. 
In your letter to mee of Janu. 
3 d . you mention a debt of 3 11 that 
S r . Willm. Dugdale is concerned 
for; I receaued your other little 
note which you sent mee when I 
was from home, and I haue or- 
der'd euery thing to bee paid; 



and I pray, assure S r . Willm Dug- 
dale (next time you write to him) 
that no banishment nor other act 
of parl mt shall make me run away 
in any bodies debt or bee behold- 
ing to any man to pay my scores. 
I thought S r . Willm Dugdale 
had liued long enough in the 
world to know, that when mony 
is paid within a fortnight (after it 
becomes due or demanded) it is 
better then any the king or the 
exchequer makes . But I see euery 
body is afraid of mee; God send 
them honester and surer men to 
deal withall. I haue by this bearer 
sent you ten pounds for M r . Joyner 
and desire you will take his ac- 
quittance and keepe it vntill wee 
meete. I intended to haue sent 
you a booke of my vncle's new 
translation, but the maid of ho- 
nour would needes make you a 
present of one of them, her father 
hauing sent her two or three to 
dispose amongst her friends. I 
am S r . 

Your's heartily 
Ralphe Sheldon. 

Miss Sheldon's letter follows : 
Weston the 9 of Ja. 1680. 

This is to wish you a hapy neu 
year and to desier that this littell 
boock may find a place amongst 
your collection: it being a small 
worke of my fathers makes me 
ventour to present itt and att the 
same time to aske how you do, 
soposingyou saw M rs . Ann Shel- 



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251 



Egg Saturday, but one bachelor of Mag. hall presented Feb. 17. 
ad determinandum, whereas since the king's return they 



don when she lay att Oxford, who 
I heare is returned fatt and fare, 
but I desier to know your opinion 
of the matar, and whether I may 
not hope for the same place in 
your estime I had when wee part- 
ed : for my part I am sure none 
is more realy 

your saruant then 
Frances Sheldon. 
The book alluded to was " The 
Counsells of Wisdom or a Collec- 
tion of the Maxims of Solomon, 
most necessary for a Man towards 
the gaining of Wisdom : with Re- 
flections upon the Maxims. Faith- 
fully translated out of French. 
London, Printed by J. Shadd for 
M. Turner Bookseller in Holborn, 
in the Year 1680." ded. to Ca- 
tharine, Queen of Great Britain. 
Wood has written in the blank 
leaf: "Anthony a Wood. Given to 
me by M ris . Francis Sheldon maid 
of honor to Qu. Katherine i°. Jan. 
1680. Being a translation of her 
Father Edward Sheldon esq." 

Weston Sept. 17. 1682. 
S r . I am very sorry I was not at 
home when you tooke the paines, 
and put yourselfe to the charge of 
giuing mee a visit. I should haue 
bin as glad as you to haue dis- 
coursed with you viua voce about 
the maine businesse as you terme 
it. But since it is our fortune to 
write one to the other ; thus — 
you say, you haue bin an expect- 
ant — I answer, You came hither 



as a ciuill guest where you were 
alwaies (to mee) very welcom, and 
might haue continued here so still, 
if it had so pleased you, but you 
went of in a surly discontented 
manner, and (as I told you last 
yeare) I then resolued to inuite 
you no more : but as to your ex- 
pectation, I do not remember I 
euer made any bargain with you, 
ergo no salary due. Again, you 
say — You haue bin a Labourer; 
I answer, indeed dignus est opera- 
rius mercede sua; but how comes 
it (I pray tell mee) that my kind- 
nesse and ciuility to you (for sea- 
uen yeares by your owne account) 
should bee 600 11 losse to you, when 
you were glad to receiue 50 11 of the 
Vniuersity for a laborious worke 
of twenty yeare's paines ? I thinke 
there is no proportion in seauen 
yeares and twenty yeares. To bee 
short : S r . I was neuer vngrate- 
full to any man, at least I am not 
conscious to myselfe of it : I 
would very willingly preserue your 
good opinion still, but I find (to 
my poore iudgment) you set too 
great a value vpon your labour, 
and I assure you my poore estate 
is not able to maintain mee (with 
those about mee) and establish 
you a liuely hood also. You shall 
alwaies find mee 

Your faith full friend and 
seruant 
Raphe Sheldon. 
What MSS. or other booke you de- 
sire, shall bee conveyed to you. 



252 LIFE OF WOOD. l l6 ^3* 

were never without 6 or 8 or 12. and Exeter coll. not 



Weston, Septmb. 2, 1683. 
S r . I haue yours of the 17 th 
past and the acquittance from M r . 
Joyner. But in answer, S r . to the 
latter part of y r . l'r, thus : I do 
much wonder that you, who 
haue bin an eminent man in the 
Vniuersity so long, and a learned 
and knowing man of the world 
and men; that you (I say) should 
forgo all your younger dayes (and 
merits also from y r alma Mater) 
to fix a hopes of Non plus vltra 
vpon mee. A man of such emi- 
nence as you are should seeke to 
make your fortune and establish- 
ment vpon some publick minister 
in some publick employment ; alas 
what can fiue or ten pounds per 
annvm (the most I am able to 
part withall) auaile to the aduance- 
ment of such a man as you. I 
haue (I thank God) a competent 
estate, and you thinke perhaps I 
Hue aboue it : I acknowledge I 
liue at y e height of it, and what 
I haue to spare is spent vpon my 
poore kindred and relations, and 
more they should haue of mee, if 
I had it to spare. But this doth 
not hinder so farre, as that I can 
afford a friend fiue or ten pounds 
vpon occasions, which I am sure 
hath bin a great kindnesse to many 
a very good gentleman well borne, 
and for which I haue had some- 
time great thankes. If such a ci- 
uility as this may bee, at any time, 
seruiceable to you, I shall bee glad 
to comply with you, for I would 
very faine conserue your good will 



and friendship. I haue really 
opened my heart to you, and more 
I cannot do. I wish you health 
and rest S r . your humble ser- 
uant 

Raphe Sheldon. 

For M r . Anthony a Wood lodg- 
ing ouer against the great 
Gate of Merton Colledge, 
Oxon. at Oxford. 

Oct. 31, 1683. 

I haue receaued yours, S r . of 
the 26 th currant and I cannot 
really tell what to answer to y r 
letter more then I haue formerly 
said in other of my Irs. You must 
giue mee leaue to value my owne 
estate, and I assure you I cannot 
find that abundance or superfluity 
in it which you fancy to y r selfe. 

If a priuate gentleman doth al- 
low a schollerten pounds perann. 
wee conceiue it a fine gratuity (at 
least it was so accounted in former 
times) but that I find is beneath 
you to accept, and to do any more 
I am not able. I know my owne 
strength, and vltra Posse non da- 
tur Esse. 

And as to what you hint in all 
y r letters — that you haue suffered 
intolerable abuses in my house — 
to that I answer, that, if you your- 
selfe had not bin of an intollerable 
implacable nature so farre that 
you would not let mee do what I 
thought good in the case, I would 
haue made those men (whom you 
haue taken dislike vnto) haue sub- 
mitted themselues vnto you : and 



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253 



one, who used to have commonly 12. About 20 matri- 
culated before Egg Saturday for Lent term. 



that is as much as any gentleman 
can expect from any body. 

I thinke I neede not enlarge 
any further on these matters. 

Now, S r . as to James Brooks 
booke or sermon, I haue (as ex- 
actly as I can) examined the Ca- 
talogue w ch is done in y r hand 
writing, and also my owne larger 
catalogue w ch I made, and I as- 
sure you there is none such in 
either catalogue : but if y r memory 
can serue you to direct mee to the 
place by any other token, you shall 
haue it : but I do vnderstand what 
you mean by saying it is printed 
in a black character. 

I wish you all health, & remain, 
S r . Your humble seruant 

Raphe Sheldon. 



Novemb. 20 th 1683. 



Sr. 



I haue bin studying these eight 
or nine dayes what to say to your 
letter of the 1 I th instant,* and I do 
protest I am at a very hard plunge. 
For I find you are too old to bee 
perswaded that any man can vn- 
derstand or speake reason besides 
your selfe. You will bee both 
party and judge, which is a very 
hard case for vs poore mortalls 
who know nothing, because wee 
haue not bin collegiates in Oxon. 
I told you, S r , when I was last at 
Oxford, that if ten pounds p r . ann. 
would do you any curtesy you 



should haue it freely; but giue 
mee leaue to tell you that my 
whole revenue will not, in any 
manner, correspond with the me- 
ritt which you set vpon your selfe 
and your work, insomuch that I 
must (vnfortunately) lye vnder y r 
censure for not complying with 
your expectation, vntill the times 
appeare more serene. I would 
faine have you beleeue that I am 
honest and sincere with you; 
other people (of what sort soeuer) 
neuer found me a shuffler : I 
haue much to do with my estate ; 
I must keepe faire with eueryone I 
deale withall. And I desire that 
I may still continue in your good 
opinion. I am, S r 

Your friend and seruant 
Raphe Sheldon. 

I find two letters only to Mr. 
Sheldon from Wood, one of which 
is without date of the year, but 
written during the period of their 
greater intimacy ; the other is suf- 
ficiently explained by those that 
have gone before : 

For M r . Rafe Sheldon 
of Beolie at Weston. 
S^ 

I have rec'd y rs from the hands 
of the incomparable M. of H. for 
so I may terme her, there being 
none of her societie here y 1 comes 
neare her. But y* w ch troubles 
me most of all is y r late indispo- 



* See this letter at p. 254. 



254 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[1683. 



120 Bachelors determine, whereas there never used to 
be under 200. Lent disputations decay, the bachelors 
don't dispute, or will not, unless the superiors (boyish 
regents) are present, some sen r . masters go to hear dispu- 



sition, w ch I presume arises mostly 
from white wine w ch you drink on 
an empty stomake everyday and so 
consequently preys upon y e nerves. 
But this conjecture comming not 
from y e mouth of a phisitian, I 
know will be laughed at, yet let 
me tell you, if any phisitian ex- 
cept D r . M. should be consulted 
would run with my vouge. 

Here is a great hurry at this 
place, w ch is not agreeable to 
scholastick humours, and divers 
reports run as men would have 
them. The present news, this 
pretty mercury will informe you 
of, and for y* w ch is to come, if 
printed, I shall weekly (or oftner) 
send you. In the mean time I 
am Y r humble ser. 

Mar. 22. AWood. 



Sr. 



Nov. 11, 83. 



The book of James Brooks bp. 
of Gloc. w ch is in 8°. & printed 
in a black character, y° bought at 
London at least 10 years ago, & 
brought it with y° to Oxon. shew'd 
it to me, & had it bound either 
there or at Chipping- norton, & if 
now wanting 'tis verie Strang, 
considering the comon buyer will 
not give above 4 d for it. I cannot 
find it here either in libraries or 
shops, & therefore having some 
occasion to make a short perusal 



of it, am sorrie 'tis wanting. 

As for y r civil offer of io 11 per 
ann. I expected no otherwise, 
knowing verie well y t after much 
sollicitation & deferrings, you 
would think y t I should snapp at 
any thing. You divers times have 
told me y t you would print my 
book at y r owne charge & y t I 
should have the benefit of it ; w ch 
reckoning everie copie to be but 
worth 14 shillings (for those of 
the Latine are i 11 . 3 s . o) would 
have made me a gainer of at least 
40O 11 , so y* if you think y* io 11 per 
an. can be equivalent to yt, y r 
judgment will be singular & my 
labour thereby will scarce be 
worth a i d per diem. 

Therefore, I think, and there 
is no rational man but will con- 
curr with me, y* I really deserve 
30 11 per an. for my life w ch if you'l 
but grant, I shall willingly sur- 
render it up for a copie- hold of y t 
value, or such an one y 1 Thumper 
holds at Brailes w n it falls. 

So y t if you are willing to con- 
ceed to this pposition 'tis my de- 
sire before you doe it, to take the 
paines next time you come to 
Oxon. to step up to my Chamb. 
& see what I have done for it ; & 
how, by my being put of from be- 
neficial employments to carry on 
the work, I drudge in the beloved 
faculty.] 



1683.] LIFE OF WOOD. 255 

tations, particularly Mr. Huntingdon after his long ab- 
sence, but they will not dispute, and stand silent, while 
their abetters sneer and grin; this we got by having 
coursing put down by D r . Fell. 

Yeomen beadles went to several colleges and halls to May 23. 
give notice to all D rs . and masters, that the Museum Ash- 
moleanum would be open the next day. 

Thursday, those doctors and masters that pleased went 24. 
to the upper room of the museum, where they viewed 
from 1 till 5 of the clock what they pleased ; many, that 
are delighted with the new philosophy, are taken with 
them, but some for the old, look upon them as baubles ; 
Ch. Ch. men not there. 

A convocation in the afternoon, wherein letters were Jun. 4. 
read for the taking of degrees, and Th. White, chaplain to 
the lady Anne, was diplomated D. D. 

Letters also were read from Mr. Ashmole, whereby he 
gives all his rarities to the university, notwithstanding he 
had been courted by others to bestow them elsewhere, and 
that others had offered great sums for them ; whereupon 
Mr. James the deputy orator read a letter of thanks in 
the university's name, which was consented to, and to be 
sent to him. 

Whereas James duke of Monmouth had entered his July 2 r. 
name in C. C. C. buttery book 1665, at which time the 
plague was in London, and he lodged in the said college, 
which had till now continued, but the majority of the 
society caused it to be erased and scratched out upon the 
breaking out of this Presbyterian plott. Our academical 
Whigs were run down. 

Musick lecturer this act, 7 th July, was Eman. Langford 
of Ch. Ch. who spoke in the theatre with a great auditory. 

Tho. Brookes of Mag. hall, a fat fellow, on Saturday, 
optime. 



256 LIFE OF WOOD. [1683. 

Michael Smith of Oriel, Monday. 
D r . - - - Turner at St. Mary's, on Sunday morning. 
D r . [Henry] Maurice of Jesus in the afternoon. 
Aug. 26. A bawdy sermon at St. Mary's in the afternoon, by 

Ben. Archer of Exeter, son of Archer of Newington. 
Sept. 6. Bannimus stuck up to expell Mr. - - - Parkinson from 

the university for Whiggism, formerly expelled from 

c.c.c. 

9 . Sunday; Thanksgiving day, appointed, I presume, on 

that day to spite the Presbyterians, or that all people 
should observe it because harvest time, or both ; T. Hey- 
lin of Ch. Ch. preached at St. Mary's, but not so full of 
girds as was expected, many bonfires at night in the city 
and university. The city at Penniless bench and z an en- 
tertainment of wine, musick, a barrel of ale, and a fire; 
in the pump below the Star inn was a tub sat, and pres- 
byter therein preaching, the smart lads of the city 
marched down the streets with cudgells in their hands, 
crying for the king and the D. of York, and all the people 
had York in their mouths, and his health was drank pub- 
lickly at most halls at dinner. 

15. Sir Kich d . Croke recorder of Oxford died. 

16. Sir George Pudsey of Ellesfield elected recorder. 
[John] Barton, M. A. sometime of Merton coll. and 

put in chaplain thereof to give a vote for James Workman 
to be rhetoric reader, afterwards chaplain of Winchester 
coll. and rector of Compton near Winchester, died of the 
small pox. 

In the middle of this month the elabatory was quite 
finished, certain scholars went a course of chymistry, viz. 
Mr. R. Plot, Mr. John Massey of Merton coll. Steph. Hunt 
of Trin. coll. proproctor. - - - Smith, - - - Boys, a M. A. 

z Sic. W. & H. a Nathan Boyse. W. & H. 



1 682.] LIFE OF WOOD. 257 

of University coll. Charles Harris a laick. These had 
meetings in the large room over the elabatory every Fri- 
day in the afternoon to talk of chymical matters, and 
were framed into a solemn meeting October 26. 

A convocation, wherein the vice-chancellor was re-ad- Oct. 5. 
niitted, and the king's letter of thanks read for the uni- 
versitVs burning several books containing pernicious 
principles. 

The said meeting in Sep. being noised about, others 26. 
were added to them, and this day they formed them- 
selves into a solemn meeting, had discourses, and the dis- 
courses were registered down by D r . Plot; the persons 
that met, 

D r . John WaUis the chief. 

D r . Ealp. Bathurst of Trim coll. 

D r . Hen. Beeston, warden of New coll. 

D r . Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. 

D r . Eobt. Plot. 

Chr. Harris. 

^Gould, M. B. fellow of Wadham. 

c. _ _ _ Des Maistres, Oriel, M. B. fellow, vice provost 
and fellow. 

Caswell, vice pr. Hert hall. 

D r . d Pitt, M.D. of Wadham. 

D r . W m . Gibbons, M. D. of St. John's. 

D r . Tho. Smith of Mag. coll. 

Mr. Ed. Bernard, astr. professor. 

Th. Pigott, of Wadham. 

e - - - Musgrave of New coll. L. L. B. 

' Ballard, M. A. and L. L. B. 

Evans of Ch. Ch. These two were taken in 23 Nov. 

b William. W. & H. e William. W. &. H. 

c Samuel. W. & H. f John. W. & H. 

d Robert. W.&H. 

WOOD, VOL. I. S 



258 



LIFE OF WOOD, 



[l682. 



Nov. 8. 



27. 



Dec. 21, 



Boyse and Smith of University coll. withdrew them- 
selves on the forming the schemed 

Speech in schola linguarum by Mr. Isham of Ch. Ch. in 
praise of S r . Tho. Bodley. 

Bp. of Rochester elect entertained at New coll. and 
next day at Trin. coll. 

This day, about 3 in the morning M rs Lasenby 

the hostess of the Mitre having about 3 hours before 
been most strangely affrighted by 3 rude persons, Tho. 
Baker, M. A. All Souls, b Aldworth, M. A. All Souls, 

* Oliffe, M. A. All Souls, (Edwards of St. John's 

not among them, but there by accident,) these having 
been drinking at the Mermaid tavern newly opened, 
after it had been shut a quarter of a year, came 
drunk to the Mitre, were let in by a boy then up ; they 



£ It appears by the minute- 
books of this society, preserved in 
the Ashmolean museum at Ox- 
ford, that on March the 7. i68|, 
a report of a consultation, held on 



Alex. Pudsey. 
Caspar March. 
James Anderton. 
John Cooke. 
Anth. Farmer. 
Tho. Hog. 
Robert Cowcher. 



the 4 th . preceding for the better 
regulation of it, was read. The 
several articles proposed were 
agreed to, and the following 
names undersigned : 

John Wallis. 

Ralph Bathurst. 



Hen. Beeston. 
Tho. Smith. 
Rob. Plot. 
W m . Gibbons. 
Edward Bernard. 
Jos. Pullen. 
Joh. Caswell. 
Tho. Pigot. 



John Massey. 
Joshua Walker. 
Tho. Lane. 
Will. Levett. 
N. Crouch. 
Hen. Pigot. 
Ar. Charlett. 
Steph. Hunt. 
Mauries Wheeler. 



Sam. Des Maistres. Edm. Antwisle. 



Jo. Ballard. 
W m . Musgrave. 
A. Welsted. 



h Richard. W. & H. 



Thomas Creech. 
Hugo Todd. 
John Benbrigg. 
J. Cunningham. 

W.&H. 
Ralph. W. & H. 



1 68 2.] LIFE OF WOOD. 259 

came, as they pretended, to eat something, the boy said, 
they were all in bed, they enquired where M rs Lasenby 
lyed, the boy shewed the window (which was a lower win- 
dow) they thereupon awaked her, and desired to have 
some meat dressed, she said 'twas late, and would not, 
or could not rise, whereupon they called her strange 
names, as Popish bitch, old Popish whore, and told her, 
she deserved to have her throat cut, whereupon being ex- 
tremely frighted, she fell into fits, and died at 3 in the 
morning, the coroner afterwards sate, and the masters 
were examined by the vice-chancellor. 

1680-1, at what time the workmen were providing con- Mar. 5, 
venience for the lords to sit in parliament in the schools, 
D r . Wallis, under pretence that his keys were used by the 
workmen, desired mine, when he met me, either in the 
quadrangle, or near the school gates, whereupon I went 
home to fetch them, and gave them into his own hands, 
and then (as also when he asked me for them) he told me 
I should have them again. When the Presbyterian plot 
broke out in June 1683, I then forbore for fear he should 
domineer over me, but when the traytors were bayled con- 
trary to all expectation (the news of which came to Oxon. 
21 Dec. 1683) I did on Dec. 3. go to him for the keys, 
told him, that I had leave from the vice-chancellor, and 
that I took my oaths, and also when he took away the 
keys, he promised me more than once, that I should have 
them as formerly ; he told me he loved not to be expos- 
tulated with, that I was in drink that I talked so with 
him, so that if I had cringed and licked up his spittle, he 
would let me have had the key. He pointed to the door, 
and bid me be gone with his 3 corner cap : vide papers in 
English Hist, of Oxon. 1659-58. 

This year in the summer came up a vessel or a bason 
notched at the brimms to let drinking glasses hang there 

s2 



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[1684. 



Apr. 28. 



1684. 
1 Jac. II. 



by the foot, so that the body and drinking place might 
hang in the water to cool them. 

1683_, a gentleman told me, that prince George of Den- 
mark, who had lately married lady Anne, should tell the 
king, that he grew fat, since he was married, to which the 
king made answer, that if he would walk with him, hunt 
with his brother, and do justice on his niece, he would not 
grow fat. 

" This year Mr. A. Wood lost his generous and true 
friend Mr. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire, at 
whose seat k he was frequently, and who was a great as- 
sistant to, as well as encourager of his studies, as may be 
partly seen by the various collections made by him and 
given to his friend. 1 He was an honest and good man, 
of remarkable integrity, charitable to the last degree, and 
a munificent favourer of learning and learned men. m At 



k Weston, in Warwickshire. 

1 See Catalogue of A. Wood's 
MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8550, 8551. 
W. & H. 

m Mr. Sheldon promised Wood 
an hundred pounds towards print- 
ing the Athene, which his heir 
honourably confirmed to him. 
Hearne. Peter Langtoft's Chro- 
nicle, p. lvi. 

[The following letter was written 
immediately on Mr. Sheldon's 
death, by his nephew Ralph Shel- 
don. 

"Weston June 26 1684. 

M r Wood, youre kind conserne 
for my deare cosin Sheldon will 
euer oblige me to pay you all the 
seruice y* I can. I must now 
humbley beg y e fauour of youre 
company heare to assist vs in y e 
ordring of his fFunerall, and to 



giue order for y e scutchion, which 
I confes I doe not soe well vnder- 
stand. I haue sent you a man 
and horses to attend you, and 
pray bring with you a Herald 
Painter that you think y e flittest 
for our purpose. Wee are told 
there is one that dos vsually fur- 
nish out bayes for fruneralls; we 
shall neede a great quantity, there- 
fore if there be shuch a one you 
will doe vs a signall fauour if you 
bring him, that he may under- 
take the hole business. There is 
movrning giuen you, therefore 
pray take what cloth will please 
you, and I will be acountable to 
you for it, and let it be made and 
sent after you. Other things I 
will tell you when I see you. I 
am, Youre humble seru. 

Ra. Sheldon.] 



1684.] LIFE OF WOOD. 261 

his death he committed to Mr. a Wood the charge of 
sorting and putting in order his papers, as appears by the 
following paragraph of his last Trill, ' Item — to my good 
friend and fellow- antiquary Mr. Antony a Wood of Mer- 
ton college Oxon. I give forty pounds desiring him to 
see my old pedigrees and all my MSS. and other papers 
(except what are written with my own handwriting) to be 
delivered into the Herald' s office, that they be put in a 
cupboard apart from others/ n 

"Ralph Sheldon was the son of Will. Sheldon — born 
of an antient, gentile and wealthy family at Beoly in 
"Worcestershire, 1 Aug. 16.23. 

a Educated in juvenile and grammatical learning in his 
father's house, under - - - TToodhop the priest of the 
house — . At 19 years of age, in the beginning of the 
civil wars of England, he went to travel into Erance and 
Italy, saw several cities there, but made Rome his head 
quarters — . After he had spent 4 years, he returned, the 
war in England being then ceased, and took to wife Hen- 
rietta Maria Savage, daughter of the lord Savage about 
1647, who, tko J a tall, proper and handsome woman, yet 
she proved not a good wife to him, as being lavish and 
improvident, to the diminishing of his estate. But having 
no children by her, and so consequently not so much in- 
volved in the cares of the world as those that have, he 
followed and endeavoured to promote his genie to the 
study of heraldrie and antiquities, and bestowed a con- 
siderable time in collecting the monuments thereof and 
gathering together by writing several genealogies of the 
noble men of England. At length, his said lady dying 



n In the ^ill-office at Doctor's Richard Rawliason, LL. D. in 
Commons^ London. bib. Bod. W. & H. 

See the Life of Ant. a Wood by 



262 LIFE OF WOOD. [1684 

1663, he spared not any money to set up a standing 

library in his house at Weston. In 1667, he travelled 

again to Rome, where chiefly spending 2 years at least, he 
furnished himself with many choice books, as also with 
medals and coins, for the setting up a closet of rarities. — 
After his return, An. 1670, John Vincent, son of Aug. 
Vincent, sometimes Windsore herald, and both excellent 
genealogists, (which John Mr. Sheldon had for several 
years allowed a yearly pension to encourage his works) 
being at that time deep in a dropsie, was advertized that 
he should leave all his MSS. and pedigrees to the said 
Mr. Sheldon, who would pay his debts thereupon, and 
relieve several of his books that were then pawned for 
ale. Whereupon, his will being made and all left to him, 
to the number of 240 MSS. at least, besides many rolls 
containing pedigrees, Mr. Sheldon conveyed them to 
Weston, which made a considerable addition to his li- 
brary. — Afterwards, buying more printed books, and 
some MSS. when he could lay hands on them, he came 
to be acquainted with A. a W. of Oxon. who, by Mr. 
Sheldon's frequent invitation, coming often to Weston, 
he the said A. W. did put his library in that order, and 
made 2 such exact catalogues of his books that nothing 
could be purloyned thence or taken away, but it could be 
with little ease straight discovered. — This library he set- 
tled in a large square - - - room over the kitchin, and 
his medalls and rarities and pictures in a little room over 
the entrie into the hall; which continuing there till 1682, 
and then Mr. Sheldon causing the room at the N. end of 
the gallery to be new wainscoted, translated them thence. 

As for the library, it continued in the same place till 

Mr. Sheldon's death, at which time, he bequeathing the 
said closet of rarities to his uncle's dau. F. S. lately M. of 
H. who conveyed them to London soon after his death 



68 5 .] 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



the library was translated to that room by his successor 
Mr. B,. S. of Barton." 

" St. Barnabas day, James duke of Monmouth, Ford 1685.P 

2 Jac. II. 



From a loose paper written 
by Mr. Ant. a Wood, now in the 
Bodleyan library. W. & H. 

[This excellent collection of 
books and manuscripts was dis- 
persed by auction in 1781, at the 
mansion house at Weston, by 
Christie and Ansell. I have the 
catalogue priced by John Dennis, 
an ancient bookseller of Middle 
Row, Holborn. One of the most 
valuable lots, namely 422, " Large 
collection of scarce old Plays by 
various authors, bound in 56 vo- 
lumes quarto," was purchased by 
King the bookseller for 5Z. 55. it 
was repurchased at the booksel- 
ler's private auction after the sale 
for 18/. 15. by Dennis, and sold 
by him for 31 1. 10s. to Hender- 
son, the actor, on the spot; for 
Henderson, accompanied by Isaac 
Reed, had walked down from 
London to Weston, partly to at- 
tend the sale, and partly to pay 
their devotions at the shrine of 
Shakspeare at Stratford, which 
was hard by. 

Among the many rare books 
the following may be particu- 
larized : 

Matthewe's Bible, 1537, 135. 

Common Prayer, 1552 (two co- 
pies), 8s. 

Shakspeare's Works, first edit. 
1623 (with two other books), 2I. 4s. 

Revelacyon of Seynt Katheryne 
(printed on vellum), 15 19, il. is. 



Legenda Aurea, in English, 
1503, 105. 6d. 

The Missals, Breviaries, Gra- 
duates, and Pontificales were a- 
bundant, most of the then extant 
County Histories, and several very 
interesting manuscripts occur, 
and a good collection of Hearne's 
publications shews that the li- 
brary was kept up by Mr. Shel- 
don's immediate successors. The 
Sheldon books not unfrequently 
occur in old libraries: they may 
be known by the arms impressed 
on the covers, viz. a fesse between 
three sheldrakes, and generally on 
the first leaf is written, in Ralph 
Sheldon's fine bold hand, " In 
Posterum." What a misfortune 
that the owner's generous inten- 
tions should have been frustrated 
by the extravagance of his pos- 
terity ! 

It may be added, that many of 
the rarest of the old plays have 
since found their way into the 
Bodleian. Henderson allowed 
Malone to select such as were 
wanting in his collection at the 
time of the sale at Weston, conse- 
quently the university library now 
contains one of the most curious, 
if not the very best, dramatic li- 
brary in the kingdom.] 

p Mr. a Wood's Diaries from 
1683 to 1692, being lost, or, at 
least, not transcribed by Dr. Raw- 
linson, we have here inserted a 



264 LIFE OF WOOD. [1685. 

lord Grey of Werk. Anth. Buys a Grerm. commander, 
landed at Lyme in Dorsetsh. with 2 or 3 ships ful of men, 
horse, arms, to whom many English rebells coming in, he 
was proclaimed king of England. 

16. " Tuesday, an officer with drums, who came over night 

into Oxon. beat up for voluntiers to supply the places of 
the king's foot guards at Whitehall, who were drawn out 
of London toward the rebells in Dorsetshire ; the rusticks 
and tallest they took, and others they put aside. — They 
took away about 30 or 40. 

" At the same time drums beat up at Abendon, which 
being a most factious towne, they could get thence but 
four voluntiers. 

19- " The militia of the countie, viz. a regiment of foot, and 

a troop of horse, met at Oxon. 

21. " Sunday, the horse left Oxon. (commanded by capt. 
Henry Bertie) and went about 4 in the afternoon towards 
Dorchester. — Thence by Abendon towards the rebells in 
com. Som. 

22. Munday, at 10 in the morning, or thereabouts, Thomas 
Hord of Coat in the parish of Bampton, esq. Tho. Beard, 
esq. of Eritwell, - - - Philipps of Oxon. chandler, living 
neare to the Cross inn, were, upon suspicion of being con- 
senting to the rising of the rebells, committed prisoners 
to the castle. 

" Between 11 and 12 the same day Peter Birch of Ch. 
Ch. chaplayne to the militia regiment, preached a sermon 
to the said regiment at St. Marie's church. There was 



curious account of some transac- Ashmolean museum, entitled, The 

tions in the university of Oxford, Training and Bearing of Arms of 

during part of that interval of the Scholars of the Universitie of 

time, from the original papers of Oxon, in June and July, Anno 

Mr. a Wood preserved in the 1685. W. & H. 



1685.] LIFE OF WOOD. 265 

then a common report that the said regiment should 
march toward the rebells. 

" About 3 or 4 in the afternoon, Rob. Pawling, late of 
Oxon. mercer, was brought under guard from his house 
at Hedington by command from the E. of Abendon, lord 
lieut. of the county of Oxon. and committed prisoner to 

the castle. About the said time - - - Heburne, butler 

of New inn, was committed to custody in the castle. 

" On the said day (June 22) was a convocation of D rs 
and M rs at one in the afternoon, wherein delegates were 
named to consult and consider of raising a regiment of 
scholars, and a troop of horse to serve the universitie and 
city of Oxon. 

"Tuesday, at five in the evening, the delegates met and 2 3- 
proroged their meetings till Thursday. 

" Thursday, the delegates met and appointed a troop of 25. 
horse and a regiment of foot to be raised by the uni- 
versity. 

" Sunday, after dinner, the university troop headed by 28 - 
D r . [Henry] Ailworth, chanc. of the diocess, went seven 
miles from Oxon. to meet and conduct thereto 4 loads of 
muskets, pikes &c. for the scholars to train with. There 
appeared 60 horse divided into two bodies, they came in 
at 7 of the clock at night. Of the said troop the E. of 
Abendon was captaine, D r . Aylworth before mentioned 
was lieutenant, D r . [John] Clutterbook of All Souls 
cornet. 

" But I saw no colours they had. 

" At 8 at night, the same day, came in about 
12 prisoners in a waggon from towards Northampton, 
guarded by about 20 or 30 horsemen, and were com- 
mitted to custody in the castle. — They were taken upoii 
suspicion, as holding correspondence with the rebells. 



266 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[l68 5 



ult. 



" St. Peter's day, Munday, a company of scholars 
under the command of Capt. Leopold Will. Finch q of 
All Souls coll. exercised themselves in feats of arms pri- 
vately in All Souls coll. quadrangle; they shewed there 
twice a day for 4 or 5 days after, and then they marched 
in public. 

" Capt. was L. Finch before mentioned. Brian Brough- 
ton L. L. bac. fell, of All Souls coll. lieutenant, son of S r . 
Brian Broughton of Longdon in com. Staff, bart. 

" Gardiner, LL. B. fellow of All Souls coll. engineer. 
Geo. Gardiner, son of John Gardiner of Crowlton com. 
Northampt. 



The colours of 
Leopold Finch. 



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Argenf 











" Tuesday, convocation in the afternoone, wherein the 
act was defer' d for a time with some considerations. 

" While the said convocation was celebrated, the uni- 
versity troop of horse met in Canditch before the Theatre, 
and thence went to Broken Hayes, where they were 
trained by the earle of Abendon, col. Jo. Peacocke, &c. 

" At 3 in the afternoone all the foot scholars belonging 
to capt. Finch met in All Souls coll. quadrangle, expect- 
ing to be called into Ch. Ch. mead to be there trained bv 



1 Leopold Finch, 5 son of He- 
neage E. of Winchelsey, born at 
Constantinople ..... A younger 



son of the E. of Winchelsey. N. B. 
These notes are in the margin of 
the original. W. & H. 



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LIFE OF WOOD. 



267 



the earle of Abendon, but he being busie about the horse, 
it was defend. 

" At the same time r Franc. Bagshaw, A. M. fellow of 
Magd. coll. and captain of another company, trained pri- 
vately in their quadrangle. 

" Capt. Bagshaw before mentioned. Rob. Hide of 

Mag. col. son of D r . James Hide, lieu. Hugh Brawne, 
M. A. of Univer. ensigne, son of J. Brawne lately minist. 
of Seyntbury, count. Glocester. 




" quart, s. & arg. 3 Coronets or. 

" Delivered to capt. Bagshaw his ensigne and men by 
the earle of Abendon at his dore against All hallows ch. 
Julv 3d. 



" At two or three in the afternoone Robert Sewster, 
fellow of New coll. and a captain of another company, 
trained privately in New coll. bouling-green, and so se- 
veral times after. 

" Robert Sewster capt. fellow of New coll. 

" s John Harris of Exeter coll. lieut. 



July I . 



r Franc. Bagshaw, son of John 
Bagshaw of Cul worth, com. 
Northampt. gent. 



s John Harris, A.M. son of Jo. 
Harris de Aviton-gifford, gent. 



268 LIFE OF WOOD. 

" Will. Atkinson of Qu. coll. ensigne. 



[1685 



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" quarterly sab. and arg. two coronets, or. 

" The said captain with his men, mostly of New coll. 
received their colours from the same hand, Jul. 3 d . See 
afterwards. 

" The same day, viz. Jul. 1 st . at about seven of the 
clock at night, lord Norris, elder son to the E. of Aben- 
don, aged 15 or thereabouts, did as captain of Ch. Ch. 
and other men, train privately in Peckwater quadrangle 
belonging to Ch. Ch. with them were mixed many poore 
privileged people, and so for several times, privately. 

" * Bertie lord Norris, capt. 

" Hen. Mordant, a younger son of the lord Mordant, 
lieut. 

" Matthew Seys, u M. A. ensign, son of Rich. Seys of 
Kerrigston in com. Glamorgan, gent. 

n 




fc Mountague Bertie, lord Nor- 
ris, eldest son of the earle of Aben- 
don. 

u [Matthew Seys administered 



to the effects of Daniel Seys, fellow 
of All Souls, probably his brother, 
who died intestate before 30 May, 
1632.] 



1685.] LIFE OF WOOD. 269 

u The said day, Jul. 1 st . at night, came news that the 
rebells were confounded and dispersed, but false — where- 
upon the earl of Abendon, lord lieutenant (who was in the 
city all the while during the militia's staying there) caused 
a bonfire to be made at Carfax, and the bell there to be 
rung. 

" Before this bonfire was made, the mayor and his 
brethren went in their scarlet from Pennyless bench to 
prayers in St. Martin's church, and thence to Penniless 
bench, where during the burning of the fire was an enter- 
tainment of wine and bisket given by them to the said 
earl of Abendon and the officers of the militia. 

" Merton coll. made a bonfire between 10 and 11 at 
night, and I knew not yet to the contrary whether any 
coll. except Ch. Ch. did so beside. It was began to be 
made in the great quadrangle, but disturbing the war- 
den's rest, it was removed into the little quadrangle, 
whereupon all the musketiers of the said coll. (for there 
were 40 musketiers and pikemen in the same house which 
partly serv'd under Bagshaw, but mostly under Finch) 
discharged, their guns, when healths were drank, having a 
barrell of beare allowed to them. The subwarden D r . 
Conant and most of the fellows were there. It was then 
by a mischance that Mr. Edm. Slatter one of the fellowes 
had a mischance by gunpowder, which burnt his hands 
and face, while he was filling his bandeliers, from a paper 
of powder laying on the ground at some distance from 
the fire, there was a cole shot from the fire into the said 
paper. At which time Mr. Lamphyre a postmaster suf- 
fered also, but very little, for he went to London the next 
day. 

a Lord Norris with his foot company of Ch. Ch. drew July 2. 
up by Allhallowes church before the dore where the earl 
Abendon lay (viz. in the house of Tho. Baker townclerke) 



270 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[I68 5 . 



which company waiting for some time the earl of Abendon 
came out, thanked them for the honour done to his son, 
at which they gave a shout. Then the earl gave the 
colours before depicted to lord Norris, and the lord 

Norris to - - - Seys his ensigne. So they marched 

over Carfax to Ch. Ch. 

" At night from 7 to about 9 Philip Bertie of Trin. coll. 
a younger son of the E. of Lyndsey, and half nephew to 
the E. of Abendon, did, as capt. train a foot company of 
scholars made up of his own house, Wadham and Lincoln, 
in Trin. coll. grove. 

" They trained privately before, viz. in the last of June. 

" Phil. Bertie a fellow-com. of Trin. coll. capt. 

« x William Latton fellow of Wadham coll. lieut. 

" Y Richard Adams, A. M. fellow of Lincoln, younger 
brother to the rector, ensign. 



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" The colours were received from the E. of Abendon the 
same day. 

" The same day St. John's coll. men received their 
colours also. 

" Trin. coll. men have two drummers that are com- 
moners, one of Balliol, and another of Wadham coll. 



x Son of - - - Latton, at King- Adams, Charwelton com. North- 
ston Bakpus. ampton. gent. 

y Richard Adams, son of Joh. 



i68 5 .J 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



271 



" The same day St. John's coll. men, with some of Bal- 
liol and others, received their colours also from the E. of 

Abendon. They want their number, and the captain 

of them all the while was sick of the small pox. 

" John Buckston, LL. D. fellow of St. John's, capt. 

" z Skinner of Ball. coll. M. A. lieut. 

" a - - - Kent, gent. St. John's ensigne. 




" The same day New coll. men received their colours — 
who had before trained privately several times in their 
coll. 



See before. 



" Tuesday, news came at night that the rebels were jui y 7 . 
routed and dispersed in a skirmish had early on Sunday 
morn. Whereupon a bonfire was made at Carfax by the 
lord lieutenant E. of Abendou. And another in Ch. Ch. 
great quadrangle — at which time great Tom rang out. 

" Wednesdav, convocation in the afternoon. Wherein 8. 



z Tho. Skinner of Ledbury in 
Herefordshire. A bac. son of W". 
Skinner. 



a John Kent, gent. com. St. 
John's, son of Rich. Kent of 
Lond. esq. 



272 LIFE OF WOOD. [1685. 

it was ordered that every incept or, whether doctor or 
master, should pay money toward the universitie militia. 
It was then publickly knowne that wee should have no Act 
(tho^ about 26 doctors in several faculties) — each master 
was to pay 10s. and every D r . 50s. 

" On the same day, at 12. at night, capt. Finch of Alls, 
coll. sent his drum to Mert. coll. which did beat up at the 
gate and in the quadrangle to call to Alls. coll. all his 
footmen of Merton for farther orders. 

" Soon after, by command of the E. of Abendon, they 
went to Islip to secure London round, and to stop all 
suspicious persons going to London. — At the same time 
the universitie horse rode all night, and dispersed them- 
selves on the roads by Dorchester, Abendon, Faringdon. 
July 9. " Great rejoycings at Oxon. by bonfires and ringing of 

bells, having received certainty of the rebelTs defeat. The 
mayor and his brethren met at Pennyless bench about 8 
at night, went to prayers in their scarlet at Carfax church, 
afterwards retired to Pennyless bench, where there was a 
bonfire and entertainment for the E. of Abendon and the 
officers of the militia. 

10. "At night returned Capt. Finch and his soldiers from 

Islip. 

13- " Act Munday, five companies of scholars shewed alto- 

gether in Ch. Ch. meadow in the afternoon. Joyned 
altogether, and were for some time trayned by the E. of 
Abendon. They all went afterwards over Carfax to their 
respective houses, the prime officers, viz. captains, lieu- 
tenants, and ensigns in scarlet coats, scarfes about their 
waste, and white feathers in their hats. Bagshaw's fea- 
ther was double, or so big, that nothing of the hat could 
be seen. 

" S. John's coll. men were not there, because they 
wanted their number. 



1686.] LIFE OF WOOD. 273 

" James E. Abendon, and lord lieut. of the county, left m- 
Oxon. and went to Ricot, being accompanied ont of the 
town by the ivniversitie troops. 

" The country militia retired to their respective houses 
the same day. The scholars retired, and shewed publickly 
no more. 

" The university troop dined with the E. of Ab. at 
Ricot — and came home well fuzd. 

" Sunday, and thanksgiving for the late victory, Mr. 26. 

Henry Bois, fell, of Universitie coll. preached on Pray 

for the Peace of Jerusalem. In which many things fa- 
vouring of popes, he was complained of to the V. chancel- 
lor by D r .Gilb. Ironside at the desire no doubt of the B. of 
S.Asaph then present. His recantation beares date 1 Aug." 

Being Sunday, the ceremony of the king's day could 1686. 
not be well performed at Univ. coll. according to their I*? ; 11 ' 
mind, in setting up the king's statue over the common 
gate, within the quadrangle. 

Munday, about 10. or eleven in the morn, was set up 7 . 
the said statue carved from Portland stone. At which 
time a partie of horse standing in the street (on horse- 
back) opposite to the common gate, did, upon notice 
given that it was up, discharge each his pistol : which 
being done, the spectators in the quadrangle, and those in 
the street, gave a great shout. 

Afterwards, as soon as they could charge their pistols, 
they gave two more, at which two shouts followed. 

Afterwards, the quadrangle being emptied, they let in 
all such officers and others that were invited to dinner, 
and being conducted into the common hall, Mr. Edw. 
Hales, a gent, commoner, spake at a desk an eloquent 
English speech before them all by heart. b 

b [This speech is in manuscript Ashm. The statue was set up 
among Wood's papers in mus. wholly at the charge of Mr. "Wil- 
WOOD, VOL. I. T 



274 LIFE OF WOOD. [1686. 

Afterwards, the master of the coll. Mr. Bertie, a noble- 
man of that house, and the officers sitting at the high 
table, and all other guests at the other tables, was a most 

noble feast, all sorts of wine ; such as Claret, Smyrna 

&c. At which time the university musick plaid, being 
their musick day by appointment. 

At 7. in the evening were candles set up in all the win- 
dows of the chambers looking into the quadrangle, and in 
those looking into the street, as also in the chappell win- 
dows — Three candles in every light — that is, 6 candles in 
every window, which continued burning till 9 at night — 
Musick in the common chamber most of the while. 

1687. The reception of his maj. K. James 2 d . at Oxon. 1687. 

4 Jac 11. ^ in m y a i3 Sence .) 

Aug. 27. Fryday, a convocation was celebrated by the acade- 

mians to order matters for the reception of his majesty — 
wherein were appointed delegates to order things. 

About the same time the mayor and his brethren with 
the common counsill had several consults among them 
how to receive him. 

In order to it, the city and academians caused all the 
high way from New coll. to Carfax, and so down to Ch. 
Church gate, to be laid thick with gravell, that noe horses 
or coaches could be heard tread or goe — but abundance 
of raine that fell the next day (after the K. came in) 
turned it all to dirt, and the citizens were forced to hire 
people to shovel it up in North- Gate street. 

All the railes and posts before the houses in S. Giles 
and Magd. parish, on the west side of the street, were 
taken away, and the ditches that divided their land laying 

liam Rogers, a very honest Roman Boyn in Ireland, most courage- 
catholic of Gloucestershire, who ously fighting for his master King 
was one of this college (Univ.) James. Dr. Charlett has the 
and has always had a most grate- speech printed. Hearne's MS. 
ful respect to that society. Mr. Collect, xvii. 206.] 
Hales was afterwards killed at the c Capt. Ochonry. 



1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 275 

before some of their dores were filled up, and the way 
made smooth, thinking that the K. and his rethrew would 
goe that way, but they did not, only on the common way 
in the middle of the street. 

They caused also the outside of North Gate (or the 
place called Bocardo) and the inside of it to be new 
whited, and the forefront (and inside next N. Gate street) 
of the arches of the several gates to be trimmed up with 
bowes and green leaves tied to a semi-hoop. 

The city arms without the gate to be new painted, and 
the king's arms within, next to North Gate, to be new 
painted or furbish/ cl. 

Saturday, at the ringing of the bell at S. Marie's, about Sept. 3. 
3 of the clock in the afternoon, 23 doctors in scarlet, both 
the proctors in their formalities, and 19 masters of arts, 
all with their foot cloaths and lackyes, gowns and formali- 
ties, repair' d to Wadham coll. the warden of which, D r . 
Ironside, was then vice-chan. There also repair'd the 
squire beadles with their golden chaines about their necks 
— but Mr. Piers, the sup. bedell of arts, being fat and 
wieldy, could not ride or walk as the others could, where- 
upon he, with leave from the vice-ch. deputed Christopher 
TVhite the universitie chymist to ride or walke for him, 
which he did : these had foot cloaths, and each of them a 
lackye or servant. 

d Having received notice by a messenger, which they 
sent on purpose to watch the king's motions from Wood- 
stock, they all got on horseback at Wadham coll. and 
rode in comly order by two and two, (the beadles being 
next before the vice-chan.) by Balliol coll, and so thro' 
Magd. and S. Giles's parish — the beadles first, vice-chan. 

d When they went out the se- Leop. Finch, a nobleman, warden 
niors went first, viz. the vice-ch. of Alls, in a proctor's gown, on 
with the beadles before him, and his left hand. 

t2 



276 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

with Leop. Finch, ward, of Alls, the doctors after, and at 
length the masters. When they came as far as the horse- 
way leading to Aristotle's well and Port Mead they made 
a stop in expectation of his maj. Afterwards went a little 
forward. 

About the time that the university bell rung, that at 
Carfax did, to summon all townsmen (who were engaged 
to receive the king) to the Gildhall, where being all met, 
and notice given that the academians were gone, they all 
marched thence into S. Giles's fields in this order 

1st. All the constables of every parish, within and with- 
out the walls, with their staves, on foot. 2ndly. The 
companies of glovers, cordwainers, taylors and mercers, 
who were few also, because that many of them, being of 
the house, rode on horseback. These companies went on 
foot, at the end of each company was the master thereof 
with his gowne on. Each company went apart by them- 
selves, and had a flagge or ensigne containing the arms of 
the company or corporation painted on them. The tay- 
lors, who were most numerous, had two flaggs, one con- 
taining their arms, the other - - - When they went out, 
the junior comp. viz. mercers, went out first. e 

After these march' d on horseback those of the common 
counsil with their gownes and best cloaths. The jun rs 
first, and all without lackyes or footclothes. 

After them the two baylives and 13 of the mayor's as- 
sociates in scarlet gowns, all by twos, each with a footman 
and foot cloth. 

Then the city Serjeants, townclerk, recorder, mace- 
bearer, and mayor, all which went as far as New coll. 



e The Mercers 1. The Glovers sel house that they should goeae- 
2. Taylors 3. Shoemakers 4. cording to antiquity. 

There was a consult in the coun- 



1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 277 

and there made a halt. At the same time all the doc- 
tors and masters that did not ride, with all degrees of the 
university, met at the schooles, and when the citizens 
were passed out of towne they marched two and two 
from the schooles, with the vergers and the yeomen 
beadles before them, up thro' the street to Carfax ; the 
doctors and masters down to Ch. Ch. gate, and under- 
graduates towards N. gate, where the pro-proctors placed 
them. 

The doctors stood at Ch. Ch. gate, the masters so far 
as they could reach towards Carfax on the east side of 
the way ; the soldiers on the west side. 

The undergraduates and some bach, stood in N. Gate 
street, but disorderly. 

In St. Giles's and Magd. parish, N. Gate street, and 
Fish street, most of the doors and windows were dressed 
up with green boughs. Several of the windows, or such 
that had balconies, were adorned with hangings or ta- 
pestry. 

The conduit was adorned with green boughs, and had 
a hogshead or vessel of claret in it, to make it run while 
the K. was passing by a place over Penniless bench, 
erected for the wind musick to play. 

There was no market kept on the said Saturday, but 
the day before. 

At five of the clock in the evening, the K. approached 
Oxon. and coming near to the academians, the vice-chan- 
cellor, doctors, proctors and masters, who for some time 
waited his coming, alighted from their horses; and the 
vice-ch. and all drawing up to him kneeled downe, and 
the vice-ch. beginning to speak, the K. bid him stand and 
speak, when he spoke a short Latine speech f ; and then 

f Before he spake the K. put off his hat, and also after he had done. 



278 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

delivered up the beadle staves which were returned, which 
being finished, the K. and company, (viz.) lord Dartmouth 
on the right hand, and made a pause till the vice-ch. and 
rest got on horseback, but Ch. Wase, the sup. beadle of 
law, being a meer scholar, and troubled with shaking 
hands, could not get on horseback, but was helped up, 
and when he was, he could not hold his staff upright, but 
cross ways, because he would hold the bridle, which 
caused laughter in some, and anger in others. 

After they had rid a little way, they came to a place 
where the mayor and citizens stood, whereupon the aca- 
demians, especially the masters and many of the doctors, 
drew aside on the left hand to make way for the king to 
come to the citizens. 

When the K. was come neare, the macebearer, town- 
clerk, recorder, mayor, and aldermen drew up to him on 
foot, and falling on their knees the recorder (S*. George 
Pudsey) spoke a speech on his knees s (afterwards printed) 
which tho* accounted by some too long, yet the K. gave 
him thanks, and put off his hat. 

Afterwards the macebearer put the mace into the 
mayor's hands, and he kneeling, offered it to the K. 
who touching it, bid him take it again, which he did, 
and thereupon gave him a rich purse of gold (guynnies) 
200Z. which the K. took, and afterwards gave it to the 
lord Dartmouth standing or sitting on horseback on his 
right hand. 

These things being done, the king made another pause 
till the lord mayor, aldermen &c. got on horseback. 

Afterwards the citizens returning quite contrary to 
the order when they went out (only the mayor and re- 
corder being mixt among the aldermen) the masters fell 

s The K. bad him stand up. 



1687.] LIFE 0F WOOD. 279 

in their places, two by two, falling jnst after the alder- 
men. Then the proctors, doctors, the vice-ch. and mayor 
(with the mace on his shoulder) all bare headed — the 
vice-ch. who had lackyes by him, being on his right 
hand. h 

Afterwards the K. with a scarlet coat on, his blew rib- 
band and George, and a starr on his left papp, with an 
old French coarse hat on, edged with a little seem of 
lace (all not worth a groat' as some of the people said) 
shouted. 

Going verie sloly on, accosted by the acclamation of 
people, and ringing of bells in every church as he passed 
by, he came within the North gate where he found 
severall poore women all clad in white with a flasket of 
herbs, k mostly of camomill, who strewed the way there- 
with just before the king's horse and retinew, which made 
a verie great smell in all the street, continuing all the 
night till the raine came. 

All the streets as they passed, which were cleared by 
the proctors and certain soldiers, were most infinitely 
crowded with all sorts of people, and all windows filled 
with faces, who made great acclamations and shouts, but 
no Vivat Rex, as the antient manner was. 

When he came to quatervois he was entertained with 
the wind-musick or waits belonging to the city and uni- 
versitie ; who stood over Penniless bench ; all which time, 
and after, the conduit ran claret for the vulgar, which was 
conveyed up there in vessells. 

Thence passed thro' Fish street between the scholars 
who had their formalities (as those in N. Gate street had) 
and soldiers, to Ch. Ch. great gate, where the remaining 

h Leop. Finch went with the k Whereof 4 had flaskets of 

sen r . doctors. herbs on their heads, and the 

1 Worth 35. other 4 strewed the way. 



280 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

doctors were, as also bac. of divinity, as also the dean and 
cannons. 

The K. went up in the dining roome, the deane and 
canons followed, and the dean spake a little speech to 
him in Latin. About that time the vice-chan. and cer- 
taine doctors, who were alighted, going up after him, 
they presented themselves to him, kneeled downe, kissed 
his hand and so departed. 

At Ch. Ch. great gate next to S. Aldate's stood the 
remaining part of the doctors (some that did not ride) 
with the dean and cannons of Ch. Ch. with their forma- 
lities, and some that were doctors with scarlet. 

After the K. had entered into the quadrangle, he 
alighted and went to the door of the dean's lodgings, 
but before he came thither the dean and cannons made 
a shift to get to the door before him; Dr. South was 
there and the K. knowing him spoke to him, whereupon 
he kneeled and gave answer; he spoke to D r . Woodruff, 
who kneeled thereupon, then, at his going into the door, 
he spoke to the deane very freely and put him into the 
door before him. 

Soon after, the K. went to supper, in the dean's dining 
roome, where the deane and cannons stood by him most 
of the time, with whom he had several discourses, told 
them he was senior to most of them, that he was entered 
into Ch. Ch. buttery book after Edge-hill fight in 1642. 
That night one of the proctors of the university (Bennett 
by name) and fellow of Univ. coll. caused, out of his own 
head, an illumination to be in Univ. coll. but so silly did 
he do it, that there were scarce any lights next to the 
street which was to be chiefly. This illumination should 
have been the next night, after the K. had heard verses 
there. 

At the same time was a bonfire before Alls. C. gate — 



1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 281 

where the king ; s health was drank ; bonfires at other 
places. 

The next day, being Sunday, he went, about 9 of the 
clock, into the catheclrall, where he touched that morn. 
and the next, about 7 and 800 people. 

Sunday morn, when the K. was in dressing, in came 
Clark 1 of Alls. coll. in his square cap — the king asked 
him of what coll. he was? he said of Alls. coll. Are not 
von, said the king, bound by statute to pray for the 
dead? Xo sir, said Clark, not that I know of. Why, saith 
another that stood by, Chichley was your founder and 
founded your coll. for such that were slain in the battle 
at Agineourt. 

Afterwards came in D r . Plot, and shewed to him several 

pieces of gold (qn. TTh. not gold made out of certaine 

) which he caused to be put into his cabinet; 

he asked him what he thought of Holy-well in Flintshire? 

he said he was never there, at which he wondred. 

After he had done there, he went to the chap ell lately 
set up by the deane ''viz. the old refectory standing X. 
and S. sometimes belonging to Canterbury coll.) in the 
quadrangle called Canterbury quadrangle, where he heard 
a sermon preach' d by a secular priest, called "William 
Hall, m son of Thorn. Hall, a cook, living in Ivy lane near 
to Paul's ch. yard in London, which was applauded and 
admired by all in the chapell, which was very full, and 
without that heard him. 

About the same time preached at St. Marie's Mr. 
Theoph. Tilden of Magd. hall, where were present some 
of the nobility, as the duke of Norf. earl of Berkley, and 
others of inferiour quality. 

1 The same who was parliament Lond. as his father told me, son 
man. of T. Hall, a cook, living in Ivy 

m Borne in the Black Frvers. lane. 



282 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

In the afternoon preached there Mr. Roys of Oriel 

coll. 

The same day the K. dined in the deane's dining roome 
at Ch. Ch. on his own choice. 

After dinner 21 fellows of Magd. coll. went to him, ac- 
cording to summons, about three of the clock. 

D r . Pudsey being in the head of them, and making his 
appearance in the presence chamber, the K. bid him come 
hither, he came hither ; then said he are you D r . Pudsey ? 
yes, if it please your majesty. Then the king fell foul 
upon them, reprimanded them very severely — D r . Pudsey 
offered severall times 11 but the K. prohibited him. 

This was for denying his mandate to Farmer — for 
denying the bishop of Oxon. 

He bid them goe to their chapell and elect the bishop 
of Oxon; whereupon they did goe, but could not elect 
him. 

Will. Penn, the capt. of the Quakers, who followed the 
K. in his progress, went after them to Magd. coll. to per- 
suade them to yield to the king's desire, but upon their 
story to him about breaking of statutes and oaths he 
rested satisfied. 

After Magd. coll. men were dismissed he went over 
Carfax to Univ. coll. in his coach, where, at the gate, he 
was received by the master, fellows and students of that 
house, as also by an English oration spoke by Mr. 
Edward Hales, a gent. comm. of that house, son and 
heir of S r . Edw. Hales of Kent, which being done he 
went with many of his guard, to Mr. Walker's chapell, 
where he heard verses. 

That night there should have been an illumination in 
the quadrangle, but by the folly of the proctor it was un- 
seasonably done the night before. 

n F. to speak. W. & H. ° It is printed, but false. 



1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 283 

TheyP gave in a petition to the E. of Sunderland, the 
secretary, the next day, being Munday, who told them 
that they would give it to the king. 

At six on Sunday night the vice-ch. doctors, proctors, 
and certaine masters, went from Adam Broom's chapell 
in S. Marie's (adorned with their formalities) to the 
dean's lodgings, where being admitted into his presence, 
the orator (Wyat) spake a speech in the name of the 
univ. on his knees,*! the doctors also being on their 
knees, which speech being finished, they presented him 
in the name of the university a rich Bible (a Bible 
printed at the Theatre) and a pair of rich embroidered 
gloves, which the K. said he would accept; then they 
asked whether he would be pleased to accept of a colla- 
tion at the Library the next day, and said he would; 
then they asked him at what time, he told them about 
nine or ten. 

Afterwards the K. went to supper, where waited on 
him D r . Woodruff (sometimes physician, then) his chap- 
lin — where as he said they talked about D r . Pocock's 
age; r he told him that he remember' d D r . Fell and 
D r . Allestry to have borne arms in the time of rebellion. 

Munday, 5th Sept. in the morn, about 8 of the clock 
he went into the cathedrall and touched again for the 
evil. Which done, he took coach and went to the 
schooles, where entering in at the great east door, the 
doctors in the quadrangle were ready to receive him — 
after, numbers went up to the library, where in that of 
Selden's at the S. end a broad table was erected, where 

p Magd. coll. men. W. & H. tells me that when the speech was 

1 They kneeled all the while, done he look'd on the doctors and 

and the K. did not bid them rise, asked Dr. Pocock whether he was 

as he used to do others. not the senior there ? he said, 

r Will. Rogers, who was there, yes. 



284 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

was a most admirable collation and three hot dishes, 
which he fed upon, for he did not care to eat cold. 

After he had sate 3 quarters of an houre he arose and 
talked with some about him for some time, in which time 
the courtiers fell to scramble after what was remaining, 
flung the wet sweet meats on the ladies linnen and petti- 
coats and stained them. 

D r . Hyde waited on him. 

He asked the vice-chan. whether they had not such a 
book translated by a Jesuit? he knew not; whereupon 
he called for D r . Hyde. 

In the meane time the mayor and his brethren waiting 
for him at the school door : They had notice that he was 
gone the other way, whereupon pursued after him, over- 
took him at Balliol coll. and put themselves in a posture 
before him, the mayor carrying the mace on his shoul- 
der; they conducted him beyond S. Giles's ch. and then 
the K. bid them return, being wet. 

N. B. This progress of the K. was supposed to be taken 
to ingratiate himself with the people : He shewed himself 
extremely courteous and affable to all (they say to gaine 
and beg favour, to get votes to take off the Test.) 

Afterwards, went to Yarnton, Casington, and then to 
Witney, where they presented him with a pair of blankets, 
with 

The King's Entertainment in Bodlexfs Library. 

Sept. came up into the library, between 10. and 

eleven, attended by the vice-ch. and doctors, besides several 
of the lords. 

Received between the globes with a Latin speech by 
Mr. Bennett the proctor on his knees ; which being done 
his majesty plucked off his glove and gave him his hand 
to kiss, and turning himself to the terrestreall globe, 



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LIFE OF WOOD. 



285 



shewed to one of the courtier's (a lord) the passage be- 
tween America and the back part of China, by which way 
certaine ships had passage, which his maj. mentioned. 
From thence he went to the lower end of the library, 
scil. to that part called Selden's library; where he found 
a banquet ready prepared for him at the S. end of the 
library, with a seat of state at the S. end of the table; 
none did eat but he, for he spake to nobody to eat. 



The table. 



The chaire of state. 



Qu. D r . Hyde, for the bill of entertainment, at his 
chamber ? 

After his maj. was sate, he asked the vice-ch. standing 
by him for certaine books, to which the vice-chan. an- 
swered that D r . Hyde the library-keeper could answer him 
more fully than he; whereupon he was called from the 
other part of the library where his study was, and being 
come, he kneeled downe, whereupon the K. gave him his 
hand to kiss; which being done, his maj. said, Well D r . 
Hyde, was the Chinese here ? to which he answered, yes, 
if it may please your majesty, and I learned many things 
of him. 

Then said his maj. he was a little blinking fellow, was 
he not ? to which he answered yes, and added that all the 
Chinese, Tartars, and all that part of the world was nar- 
row-eyed. Then the king said, that he had his picture 



286 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

to the life hanging in his roome next to the bed 
chamber. 

Then his maj. told D r . Hyde of a book of Confucius, 
translated from China language by the Jesuits (4 in num- 
ber) and asked whether it was in the library? to which 
D r . Hyde answer' d that it was, and that it treated of 
philosophy, but not so as that of European philosophy. 
Whereupon his maj. asked whether the Chinese had any 
divinity? to which D r . Hyde answered yes, but 'twas 
idolatry, they being all heathens, but yet that they have 
in their idol-temple statues representing the Trinity, and 
other pictures which shew that antient Christianity had 
been amongst them; to which he answered by a nod. 
After that, his maj. left off asking any more questions, 
only turning his eyes up toward bishop Laud's MSS. on 
his right hand, D r . Hyde told him that those books, 
which were all MSS. were given by archbishop Laud. 

At length, his majestie having eaten enough, rose up 
to goe away, but seeing the people begin to scramble 
after the victuals and banquetting stuff, he stood still to 
see the beginning of the scramble, and so went forth 
through a lane made for him — commending to them 
father Hall — recommended to them humility, preaching 
by heart, and told them how well the preachers beyond 
the sea were accepted for so doing; and that we were 
indeed good scholars, but when we were grown up, we 
grew lazy and lost all we had. 

An Account of the Dishes wherewith the K. was treated 
at the publick Library. 

Dry sweet meats and fruits 20 large dishes piled high, 
like so many ricks of hay. 

Wet sweet meats 24 little flat plates, like trencher plates, 



1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 287 

not piled; placed among the greater dishes scatteringly 
in vacant places to fill np the vacances. 

28 large dishes of cold fish and cold flesh, as Westphalia 
hams Sec. Some whole, others cut out into slices and 
piled pretty high. 

3 hot dishes, viz. shoulder of mutton, phesant, partridge 
and quailesj of these the K. did eat, not medling with 
any thing else, except only that he took one little piece of 
dry sweet meat. 

36 plates of sallating, piled high and copped with 
oranges, lemmons, olives, samphire, &c. clems, plums, &c. 

The K. not bidding the courtiers eat, nobody did eat, 
but all was in a scramble carried away by the rabble, 
which scramble the K. stood to look upon about 2 or 3 
minutes, and then went away. 

Enquire more of Mr. Hedges, and the cook of St. 

John's. 

; This ambigu or banquet cost the univers. 

W. Rogers. J 160/. He liked the wine well. Where- 
upon they sent some after him. 

After the K. had done his breakfast, they began to 
scramble s (the scholars some say did begin) insomuch 
that the K. being not able to pass away for the crowd, 
stayed there awhile, and talked with some by him. 

At length they made a lane for him, and going out of 
Selden ; s library into the other part, he saw the famous 
preacher Will. Hall, who had preached before him the day 
before, and speaking to him he turned about to the vice- 
ch. and doctors and commended him for a rare scholar 
and to their acquaintance, whereupon they bow'd kindly 
to him and so passed forward. 

s Dr. Derham a physit. of so notorious that they flung 
Magd. hall, was noted here for things in his face. 
a scramble, being in his scarlet, 



288 LIFE OF WOOD. [1687. 

Afterwards going forward, proctor Bennet delivered a 
short Latin speech to him, wherein he hoped that his 
maj. would be good to Ecclesia Anglicana — 'twas by the 
globes. 

Then going towards the door to goe out, he turned 
aside to the vice-ch. and doctors and discoursed with 
them — talked to D r . South and commended his preach- 
ing, whereupon he answered, that he alwaies did and 
would shew himself loyall in his preaching, or to that 
effect — Here he said also that he heard many of them 
used notes in their sermons — but none of his church 
ever did. He said that D r . Dolben did read much of his 
sermon before the K. his brother, after his restauration, 
which the K. telling him of, he never after did, and there- 
fore his preaching was well liked off. 

Then he spoke to the vice-chan. and told him that 
there was a great sin raigning among them called pride 
— of all things I would have you avoid pride, and learne 
the vertue of charitie and humilitie. There are a sort of 
people among you that are wolves in sheep's clothings ; 
beware of them, and let them not deceive you and corrupt 

you 1 have given libertie of conscience to some of my 

subjects, therefore do not take it ill, for in what I have 
done, I think I have not done harme to you; Let not 
therefore your eye be evil and mine be good, but love one 
another and practice divinity, do as you would be done 
to, for this is the law and the prophets. 

Then he was conducted to the Divinity school, and 
there he asked what place was that? which being told 
him, he asked where the Convocation house was ? where- 
upon being conveyed thro' the postern which leads from 
the Divinity school to that house, he asked if that was 
not the place where the house of commons sate about 
7 years since, at which time they endeavoured to have 



1687.] LIFE OF WOOD. 289 

past the bill of exclusion against him ? to which one that 
stood by (Jones lord Rannula of Ireland) made answer, 
yes, if it please your maj. and added that his late maj. 
when he dissolved the parliament thereupon, said, now 
I am K. of Eng. and was not before. 

Afterwards going out of the Convocation house into 
the Apodyterium Mr. Will. Rogers one of his retinew said, 
sir, this Convocation house is the place wherein they 
confer degrees. Sir, I hope you will let Mr. Hales, who 
stood behind him (son of S r . Edw. Hales) be created M. 
of arts. No, no, saith the K. not yet, time enough for 
that. 

Afterwards he went into the Theatre, and viewing the 
paintings on the roof, said 'twas pittie that Varrio did not 
paint it. 

He did not like the paintings, and therefore wished 
that Varrio, a Neopolitan borne, had done it. This 
Varrio hath gotten several thousands of pounds for paint- 
ing St. George's chapell at Windsor, and several places, 
and at Westminster. 

Then the K. going to the great door behind the Theatre 
in Canditch to take coach, he turned aside to the vice-ch. 
and doctors and said I must commend unto ye againe 
love and charitie, that there be a right understanding 
among you. I must tell you that in the K. my father's 
time the church of England's men and the Catholick's 
loved each other and were, as 'twere, all one ; but now 
there is gotten a spirit which is quite contrary, and 
what the reason is I cannot tell. There are some 
among you that are the occasion of those things, but I 
know them and shall take notice of them for the 
future. 

Note, that what the K. said here and in the library 
about charity and love was occasioned by the base and 

wood, vol. 1. u 



290 LIFE OF WOOD. [1688. 

scurrilous language given to Mr. Walker and Massy; 
especially the former, when they turned from their 
religion. 
1688. " Mem. that on Tuesday, Sept. 4. I dined with D r . 

5 Jac. 11. Nathaniel Johnston, author of the following book * in his 
house in Leicester street in Westminster, at which time 
he gave me the said book and told me that it was mostly 
compiled from mine intit. Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Ox on. and 
told me further, it was published at London and in West- 
minster about the 10 th of June the same year. 

" Two days after I returned to Oxford, and on the 7. 
of Sept. int. hor. 7. et 8. post merid. I met near C. C. 
gate Mr. Jo. Beale and D r . Phineas Elwood : the last of 
which told me of the said D r . Johnston's book, and asked 
me with great concernment what need there was for me 
to compile and publish Hist, et Antiq. Oxon. which hath 
given advantage to the enemies of the university of Oxon. 
to write against it &c. — Ridiculous ! " 
1692. Citation served me on Wednesday 16 Nov. to appear in 

4Gui.et fae vice-chancellor's court 18. in the cause of Henry earl 

Nov. 16. of Clarendon. 

18. I appeared int. hor. 1 et 2. post merid. where Ben. 

Wood stipulated for me in 40/. u I desired the copy of 
the articles against me; at 4 of the clock in the after- 
noon or past I was with Mr. Kennet of St. Edmund hall, 
thence I went down the street, and at the door of the 
Eagle and Child, Mr. Davies of Sanford and Mr. Sher- 
wyn the beadle were talking, Mr. Davies looked red and 
jolly, as if he had been at a fish dinner at C. C. C. and 
afterwards drinking, as he had been ; by that time I had 



t See The King's Visitorial Ashm. N°. 517. W. & H. 
Power asserted, among Mr. Anth. u [Lord Clarendon had pre- 

a Wood's printed books in mus. viously stipulated for 10Z.] 



1692.] LIFE OF WOOD. 291 

got out of the East gate, he overtook me on horse back 
(for he took horse at the Eagle and Child door) and dis- 
coursed me aloud, and told me he had several letters of 
mine ; I asked him how he came by them, he answered 
among Mr. Eulman's papers, and asked whether he had 
best print them or not, I answered no, but that he should 
let me have them ; he said there were many bad things 
in them, and I had printed several bad things in my 
book; I bid him go forwards, and we would talk more 
of these things hereafter : I would now ask this person, 
who spoke these things aloud, (nay which made the 
people stare) why did not he tell me these things before, 
when I usually met him, to which I answered, that what 
the mind had been concealing for 3 or 4 years, (for so 
long Mr. Eulman had been dead) it all would out, when 
the head is hot and possessed with drink : he is also of a 
poor spirit, and hearing how I had appeared at the vice- 
chancellor's court, he was resolved, if that could not do 
hurt, to blacken and daunt me the more. The book 
binder without Eastgate heard this, told Mr. Reeks x , and 
Mr. Reeks told me 23 Nov. in the presence of Mr. 
Cotes. 

At the coffee house, and at Swift's, Ben. Wood, and 
Mr. Cooke of St. John's my proctor — 2s. 3d. 

Monday between 11 and 12 Mr. Davies and I met at 
C. C. C. coll. gate, and he fell upon me again, but not so 

x [Probably Henry Reeks who Reeks, son of W. R. of Marl- 
was a well-known apothecary in borough in Wiltshire, gent., matr. 
Oxford, where he died previously of Edmund hall, Oct. 19, 1666, 
to June 6, 1706 ; at which time his afterwards demy of Magdalen col- 
widow, Alice Smith, and his only lege, 1667; B. A. June 6, 1670 ; 
child, Jane, the wife of the Rev. fellow of Magdalen 167 1 ; M. A. 
Emanuel Mugg, renounced the Apr. 10, 1673. He died a fellow 
administration of his effects. He of Magdalen 1675.] 
had, I think, a brother, William 

u2 



292 LIFE OF WOOD. [1693. 

hard, and said, I said Mr. Fulman y was a proud man — no 
such thing — he talked again about my letters — he said 
that Mr. Fulman helped me to a great many things, and 
I did not acknowledge it, that I did not mention him &c. 
Dec. 2. Friday, appeared about articles. 

8. Thursday Tho. Wood appeared — vid. Letter. 

9- Friday again — vid. Letter. 

1693. D r . Bryan, preacher to a Jacobite meeting in St. Dun- 
Ma,? ' e stan's court in Fleetstreet, taken up. 
Jan. 1. it was proposed that D r . Lloyd Bp. of St. Asaph's book, 

now of Litch. entit. God's Way of disposing of Kingdoms, 
fyc. should be burnt, but it was carried against it in the 
house of peers by 11 votes. 

Latter end of this month things are dear in the market, 
though money is dear, few scholars in Oxford, great taxes 

and payments. All things are dead. 

In this month the charter of the university of Oxford 
confirmed by parliament. 
20. I gave in my answer to the articles z per Tho. Wood to 

the assessor : Thing disliked. 
24- Paid poll money for St. Thomas day — 11. Is. 

Lett. dat. Jan. 21. The Bp. of Landaff (Beaw) hath 
exhibited several articles against D r . Jones, chancellor of 
the diocese, in the court of arches, for several misde- 
meanours. 
30. King's fast, Phil. Thorne of Exeter coll. preached. 

y For an account of Mr. Will. lean museum, N°. 8540. The lat- 

Fulman see Athene Oxon. un- ter was indebted to the former and 

der the year 1688. A long con- to the history abovementioned for 

tinued friendship subsisted be- many valuable additions to the se- 

tween Mr. Wood and him. The cond edition of Acadernice Ooconi- 

former received from the latter ensis Notitia. 1675. W. & H. 
many judicious remarks on the z [See the whole libel or accu- 

Historia et Antiq. Oxon. which sation with Wood's reply &c. in 

are now preserved in the Ashmo- the Supplement to this Life.] 



1693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 293 

Died Sir W m . Turner, alderman of London, and presi- Feb. 9. 
dent of the hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem. 

Another answer at the assessor's chamber. I0 - 

Sister broke up house, and went to London. 20 - 

Note, in Feb. having been taxed for 100/. there was a 
demur made of paying it, because 'twas upon a mortgage 
— afterwards the commissioners taxed me at 200/. and 
accordingly the collectors came to collect it ; whereupon, 
I going to them to swear off 100/. on the 17 th . of March, 
they imposed on me the oaths of allegiance and supre- 
macy, which I took, notwithstanding I then told them, 
that I had taken them two years before. Necessity Hol- 
loway a busy man in this — the recorder very civil. 

Paid the quarterly tax of 6s. for 100/. Mar. 20. 

My vindication went to London by the waggon. 28. 

Vindication of the Historiographer* came to Oxon. and Apr. 20. 
the next day Mr. Kennet sent me six ; — not exposed to 
sale till 26 th . of April. 

Mr. Walker sen r . proctor &c. quitted his office with a 26. 
very good speech ; new proctors admitted, viz. Rog. 
Altham of Ch. Ch. and Rich. Vesey of Magd. coll. 

Poor women in Oxford market clamouring again at the May 6. 
price of corn, pelting millers, mealmen, bakers &c. the 



a [" If any one desires a far- Seth, Ld. Bp. of Sarum, written 

ther account of Mr. Wood, he by Dr. Walter Pope, in a letter to 

must consult the Vindication of the author, Lond. 1697, 8vo. was 

him, written as 'tis said by Dr. written by Dr. Tho. Wood of New 

Wood, and printed some years college, notwithstanding he does 

since." Hearne, MS. Collec- not own it. He also was author 

tions, vol. ii. p. 40. In the same of The Vindication of the Histo- 

page he calls Dr. Wood of New riographer of ye University ofOx- 

college his (Anthony a Wood's) ford and his works, &c. Lond. 

nephew. I0 93, 4-to." MS. Collections, vol. 

Again, " The Appendix to ye iii. p. 140.] 
Life of ye Rt. rev. father in God, 



294 LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 93« 

mayor repaired to the Guild hall, and sent for, and quieted 
them. 
10. Two princes of Saxe Gotha at the Cross incognito, or 

thus, as Mr. Abandara b tells me, Fredericus dux Saxonise 
Gotha, aged about 26, and his younger brother, two 
princes of grand extraction ; they visited all places in the 
university, and went away incog, next day. 
i4- Fast day, Mr. Jos. Jackson of Queen's preached at St. 

Mary's. 
24. Congregation, D r . Halton pro-vice; about 12 masters 

in the congregation, some had morning gowns, and there- 
upon he denied their votes; they put in a protestation 
against him. 

June 13. C. C. coll. day, six bachelors were elected bachelor- 
fellows of Merton, when Peter Wood of that house stood, 
put aside, as 'twas said then, because he was too precise 
and religious, and therefore not fit to make a society 
man This is the custom of most elections in the uni- 
versity. 
*9- There was a hearing at the king's bench bar between 
D r . Bury and the bishop of Exeter about the rectory of 
Exeter college, to which his L p . preferred Mr. Rich. 
Paynter. The court seemed to favour Dr. Bury, but it 
will not be decided till next term. 

July 3- A hearing at the assessor's chamber at All Souls ; D r . 
Bourchier there, very passionate and base, and would not 
suffer Tho. Wood to speak. The preface with armes and 
picture, says he, were as a mark on an ass that was turned 
to common. He would have my book burnt. 

b Read Abendana. Sed sic MS. some copies of the first edition of 

W. & H. the Athene. 

c [This was ahead of Wood en- Among Mr. A. Wood's papers, 

graved by Michael Burghers, with in his own handwriting, now in 

the arms of the author, prefixed to the Bodleian library, is a foul 



1 693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 295 

Appeared at the king's bench at Westminster hall, a July; 
young woman in man's apparel, or that personated a man, 
who was found guilty of marrying a young maid, whose 
portion he d had obtained, and was very nigh being con- 
tracted to a second wife ; divers of her love letters were 
read in court, which occasioned much laughter ; upon the 
whole, she was ordered to Bridewell to be whipped and 
kept to hard labour till further order. 

Fast day, Mr. e - - - Sloper of Pemb. coll. preached at 12. 
St. Mary's. 

Thursday after act, a hearing was to be in the vice- 13- 
chancellor's lodgings, but he being taken up with the 
strangers, it was at the assessor's lodgings at All Souls, 
and it being the last day before sentence, D r . Bourchier 
alias Butcher appeared in behalf of my lord, which he 
had not hitherto done, and when my proctor T. Wood 
was pleading, he would not suffer him to speak for snap- 
ping and snatching, and ill language, no better than a 

copy of a letter to Mr. Tho. Ben- sides 55. for paper; in all, 3Z. 55. 

net the bookseller, without any If you are minded to take off any 

date, from which the following is from my hands to add to those 

an extract : copies which you have lying by 

" I send this letter by Mr. Joh. you, you shall have them at a 
Aubrey to give it to you or leave reasonable price. Some gentle- 
it at your shop, to save you the men here give me I2 d . a piece 
charge of 2 d . and tell you that I for them to put into their copies, 
have here printed my epistle with but if you take off from my hands 
a bordure and picture in it, and a 50 of the said epistles with bor- 
large initial letter under it, pur- dure and letter, you shall have 
posely to put it in all copies that them cheaper. Pray tell me your 
are in the publick, and in any col- price and take order with some 
lege and hall, libraries. The bor- bookseller to pay me here." On 
dure with the picture cost me il. the back of this Wood has writ- 
10s. ten, " Mr. Bennet did not answer 

The initial letter 155. the com- this."] 
posing, printing, and charge of d Sic. W. & H. 

the rolling-press 155. more, be- e Charles. W. & H. 



296 LIFE OF WOOD. L 1 ^. 

f _ _ - scolding, tho' the assessor bid him hold his tongue 
several times ; the meeting therefore was prorogued to 
the afternoon; before the time came, my proctor sent 
word, and excused himself from coming, because of the 
incivility of Bourchier. 

14- Friday in Apodyt. Mr. Smith of St. John's brought me 

a sentence drawn up by Bourchier, but, before the judge 
took it, Mr. Dodwell an attorney gave him an Habeas 
Corpus, so an end for the present. News thereupon was 
sent to the earl of Clarendon, who thereupon repaired to 
lord chief justice Holt, and obtained of him & procedendo 
contrary to custom (Tuesday 18) which allowes it not till 
the beginning of the term following. Might overcomes 
right. My lord got Heneage Finch the solicitor to go 
with him. The assessor upon the bringing in of the 
Habeas Corpus, prorogued the meeting till 29 July, Sat. 

29- Saturday, sentence ° against Mr. Wood and his book 

pronounced in the Apodyterium ; late at night were pro- 
grammas stuck up, were seen and read on Sunday morn- 

f F. Woman's. W. & H. dissenters ; but of all the zealous 

s The sentence was " That he church-men he had given charac- 

should be banished and deprived ters with a singular turn of es- 

of all priveledges belonging to a teem and affection : nay of the 

member of the university, until Jacobites, and even of the Papists 

he should make a proper recan- themselves, he had always spoke 

tation. That the book should be the most favourable things, and 

burnt, and that he should pay the therefore it was really the greater 

costs of the suit, which amounted mortification to him, to feel the 

to thirty four pounds." storm coming from a quarter 

This censure, says the author where he thought he least de- 

of the Complete History of Eng- served and might least expect it. 

land, vol. iii. pag. 669. was the For the same reason, this correc- 

more grievous to the blunt au- tion was some pleasure to the 

thor, because it seemed to come Presbyterians, who believed there 

from a party of men whom he was a rebuke due to him, which 

had the least disobliged. His they themselves were not able to 

bitterness had been against the pay. W. & H. 



1 693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 297 

ing on St. Mary's gate and schools, plucked down in the 
afternoon. 

Monday, about 10 of the clock in the morning Skinner 3,1. 
the apparitor made a fire of two faggots in the Theatre 
yard, and burnt the 2 d . volume of Athen. Oxon. 

In the Gazette of the 3d of Aug. is an account of it, but 
the scandalous places in the book are not pointed at. 

Wednesday, Fast, Mr. Rich. Barker of New college Aug. 9. 
preached at St. Mary's. 

It is said, D r . Gower, master of St. John's, Cambridge, 24. 
excuses his disobedience to the mandamus by pretending 
that by the laws of the college, no man can be displaced 
for scruples of conscience, Papists only excepted. 

D r . Charles Conquest was buried in the abby church of Sept. 20. 
Bath. 

Died sir Thomas Clayton, warden of Merton college. Oct. 4. 

Fast day omitted. n. 

h Election appointed : D r . Coward a physician of North- 12. 
ampton, and fellow, came to the college to give his vote, 
the society suspended him of his vote, he appeals, the 
election thereupon prorogued. 

Nov. 1st and 2d. The fellows of Mert. coll. were elect- 31. 
ing a warden, and at length pitched upon D r . Lydall, D r . 
Conant, and D r . Bateman : there were other voices given. 
Nov. 3. They went up to London to present. 

Wednesday, Mr. Kinsey, fellow of Oriel coll. and vicar Nov. 1. 
of St. Mary's church, died in an house in Catstreet ; left 
Oriel coll. fifty pounds, buried 

Gun-powder treason; D r . Hugh Todd of Univ. coll, 5. 
preached in the morning. 

Mr. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. spoke a speech in 8. 
schola Linguarum, in laudem Bodlei, being accompanied 

h Supple, Merton college. W. & H. 



298 LIFE OF WOOD. [1693. 

from his college to the schools by some of his fellow 
students. 

Friday, D r . Lydall came from London without hopes 
of the wardenship ; was here the next day in the after- 
noon. 

Saturday, the archbishop, who had in a manner denied 
him, nominated him warden. John Franklin the drawer, 
being then at London with the fellows, was sent with a 
packet to the sub-warden, and another to D r . Lydall ; he 
came by dinner on Sunday, and finding D r . Lydall in the 
hall, he congratulated him, and delivered the packets; 
after dinner the bells rung at Merton college, on Monday 
D r . Lydall went to London. 
25. In the morning the great bell of Ch. Ch. rung out for 

Mr. Harrington, so I presume he died on Thursday 23 d . 

At 6 at night came from London to Oxon. the new 
nominated warden of Mert. coll. accompanied by 100 per- 
sons on horseback, while Merton college bells rang. 
27. Monday, D r . Lydall admitted warden. As the arch- 

bishop Tillotson hath done the college justice, in letting 
it have a senior and a man of their own body, so he hath 
done great injustice in this, that he hath nominated a 
warden with a wife and 7 or 8 children, but being to be 
fed with the bread belonging to piety and learning, is 
a great detriment to the college; what they eat and 
drink will serve for exhibition of 7 or 8 poor scholars; 
besides, D r . Lydall is old, and unserviceable, a man of no 
generous spirit, ignorant of learning, and so consequently 
no encourager thereof. He has been a packhorse in the 
practical and old Galenical way of physick, knows nothing 
else, buys no books, nor understands what learning is, or 
the world, how the affairs thereof passeth, which bent for 
sordid interest and sneaking compliance, cares for no man, 
but for a penny or two pence. 



1693.] LIFE OF WOOD. 299 

St. Andrew's day, int. 2. and 3. post merid. the body of 3°- 
James Harrington, esq. was conveyed to Oxon. from Lon- 
don, accompanied by 40 or 60 horses before his hearse, 
and twelve coaches behind it, buried in the north transept 
of Ch. Ch. at evening prayer. 1 

Died Dr. -Marsh, k archbishop of Dublin, and was Dec. 15. 

Franc. 

buried with solemnity in Ch. Ch. within the said city. He 
had a daughter on whom he doated, though neither hand- 
some, or witty, but because she married, against his con- 
sent, an officer (a soldier) broke his heart. 

Saturday, Oxford three hackney coaches robbed at 16. 
Wheatley bridge by 4 Oxford scholars (as 'tis said) with 
vizard masques. A man on horseback, who rode on 
with the coach, lost 15 guineas, Mr. LydalFs son his 
silver hilt sword and money, Necessity Holloway and 
others. 

My name and effect of the sentence was put into the 27. 
proctor's black book, 1 subscribed by D r . Aldrich vice- 
chancellor, [Roger] Altham and [Richard] Vesey of 
Magd. coll. proctors. 

The first thing that D r . Lydall caused to be done, after 
he was admitted warden, and before he settled in his 
lodgings, was to take down the old windows in the war- 
den's dining room, and hall under it, containing rebusses, 
fantastick devices in almost all the panes, and set up 
square glass, yet caused the arms to be set up again, the 
majestick light was all lost. Had he been a single man, 
and not had a nice wife with 6 or 7 daughters, this would 
not have been done ; the next was to set up a coach hav- 



1 See Athene Oxon. under Marsh. 
the year 1693. 1 [See Supplement to this Life.] 

£ See Athene Oxon. article 



300 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694. 

ing had none before ; yet had he been a single man, as 
D r . Goddard was, he would have kept none. 

Copy of a letter from Arthur Charlett to A. W. 

Sir, 
Your friend the earl of Clarendon is now in town. I am 
sorry you was so much out of humour the other day, as 
not to dine with the author of the Gentleman's Journal. I 
want one of your pictures which I desire you to send to 
your loving friend 

Ar. Charlett. Oct. 4. 93. past 11. 

1 694. Thomas Wood told me, that the earl of Clarendon, and 
Mar. his party, will turn my lord's fees into a medal, in token 

Jan. 6. £ ^ ie yi c tory, to be put into the museum. m 

I was with D r . Woodroffe, and he told, he had six in 
commons at Gloucester hall, his 2 sons two. 
30. King's fast, Mr. W m . Wyatt, orator, principal of St. 

Mary hall, preached at St. Mary's, and it was a high flown 
sermon, made, as 'tis said, for K. James 2 d . reign : he was 
much against the perfidiousness of the Scots, and said they 
were the chief authors of archbishop Laud's death, who 
was of more worth than all Scotland. At this sermon 
was present (Archibald) Campbell a younger son of the 
marquiss of Argyle, yet a high flown loyalist, and noble- 
man of University coll. who being much enraged at what 
he said against the Scots, he did accost Mr. Wyatt when 
he came out of the pulpit, and did in a most egregious 
manner abuse him in the face of the people, and called 
him red-faced sot. Mr. Wyatt complained to the vice- 
chancellor (D r . Aldrich dean of Ch. Ch.) D r . Aldrich sent 



m [See the Proceedings against Wood in the Supplement to this 
Life.] 



1694.] LIFE OF WOOD. 301 

for Campbell, but Campbell is gone, and will not appear : 
the university gave this Campbell bis degree of M. A. be- 
fore be was standing for it, and allowed him to wear a 
nobleman' s gown. 

Sund. morning the bells rung out for the death of D r . Feb. u. 
W m . Levett, principal of Magd. hall, and dean of Bristol," 
who died at 12 the night before. 

The president and fellows of Mag. coll. chose D r . Main- 12. 
waring Hammond to be principal of Mag. hall, presented 
him the next day to the vice-chan. D r . Aldrich, who denied 
to admit him, till the chancellor was satisfied. The pre- 
sident, then bishop of Oxford, went that day to London, 
and was not at the election. 

Mr. Daillon, a French minister, who had been committed 20 
prisoner for preaching treason in St. Mathew's church in 
Friday-street, was found by the jury not guilty, and so ac- 
quitted. 

Saturday, D r . [Richard] Adams of All Souls was ad- Mar. 3. 

n [D r . Levett had been chap- things so adjusted before four of 
lain to the earl of Clarendon, and the clock, that the divine service 
accompanied him into exile. He may begin regularly at the canon- 
became rector of Husband's Bos- ical houre. He bequeaths 50Z. 
worth, in Leicestershire, 1672, for the library at Ch. Ch., 20Z. to 
vicar of Flower, Northampton- the use of Magdalen Hall, and 5?. 
shire, 1676, principal of Magda- for books for Corpus library, be- 
lenHall, 1681, and dean of Bristol, sides money to apprentice poor 
1685. His will, which is in the boys from Flower and Husband's 
archives, is dated Jan. 27, 1693-4, Bosworth. He mentions his ne- 
and directs that his body shall be phew, William Levett, second son 
decently interred, "without any of his brother, sir Richard L., 
manner of speech, or funerall ora- knight, and then alderman of Lon- 
tion, or either good or bad verses, don, and makes his kinsman, Mr. 
and without any opening of it, or the Henry Levett, fellow of Exeter 
least dissection of it whatever," in college, his sole executor. By the 
the cathedral at Ch. Ch., and that inventory, also in the archives, it 
the invitations may be so sent out, appears that his personals were 
and his corpse so carried, and all valued at 2402Z. os. nd.] 



302 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694. 

mitted principal of Mag. hall by the vice-chancellor. In 
the morning when they came to the gates, they found them 
locked, and when they begun to break open the door by 
chopping it to pieces, some of Mag. coll. came to them and 
told them that their college had let a lease of the hall to 
D r . Mainwaring Hammond, whom they had chosen prin- 
cipal. However, making way in, the vice-chancellor con- 
ducted Adams to the refectory and there admitted him. 
Afterwards D r . Adams made a little speech, and enter- 
tained the vice-chancellor and aularians with a glass of 
wine. The principalis lodgings were locked up by D r . 
Hammond. 
8. The grace of White Kennet of St. Edmund hall did pass 

by a majority in congregation after it had been denied 
thrice, because he had sent in a letter to a certain gent, 
wherein he told him, that such a college in Oxford was a 
debauched college, that they were all given to looseness, 
which deterred that gent, from sending his son to that 
house. Mr. Kennet was then at Bicister very sick, having 
about ten days before gone to that place to see his wife 
that was before sick, and afterwards to bury her. 

Mar. 15. The archbishop's order dated for the restoration of Mr. 
Prowse, chaplain of All Souls coll. to his chambers and 
commons, from which, for some years before, he had been 
unjustly deprived by the new warden. 

New Coll. school nourishing extremely much under the 
tuition of Mr. James Badger, (for there were above 100 
commoners besides choristers) and therefore the school 
not big enough to contain them, Mr. Badger obtained 
leave to translate his scholars to the old congregation 
house at St. Mary's, wherefore they were accordingly 
translated thither Apr. 18. 
20. Swore off 100/. before the commissioners. 

Apr. 12. Thursday in Easter week, Trinity college chapell was 



1694*] LIFE ,lF wood. 303 

consecrated for a pious use. Between 8 and 9 in the 
mor nin g met together those heads of houses, doctors and 
others, that were invited to the solemnity, in the presi- 
dent's lodgings of Trinity coll. and at 9, D r . Hough, 
bishop of Oxford, who had a commission from the 
bishop of Winchester, visitor of that college, went thence 
to the new chapell at the head of them; afterwards the 
beadles, then the president and vice-chancellor, and rest 
of the doctors. The Chapel door being opened, the bishop 
entered, kneeled down, and said something: and then in 
the choir kneeled down again ; so at the altar. The pre- 
sident read the service, Mr. Fyfald the first lesson, and 
Mr. Harding the second. "When service was done. D r . 
Thomas Sykes one of the sen r . fellows preached; which 
done, there was a sacrament, and an offering, the money 
of which was given to - - - 

Afterwards P went to dinner in the hall, where the com- 
pany was nobly entertained. The president D : . Batlmrst 
built the outside, which cost him 1700/. and the inside by 
benefactors.^ 

Mr. Altham the sen 1 ', proctor quitted his place, and in Apr. iS, 
his speech spoke very honourably of James Harrington of 
Ch. Ch. lately deceased, and as dishonourably of the his- 
toriographer of Oxford, by calling him scurra and calum- 

[The visitor had been applied of the first rank. In one of his 

to. to officiate on this occasion. letters on this subject he says : 

but was prevented by business of " I have contributed my share for 

a public nature at Westminster. finishing the outward bulke, as 

See his Letter to the president in walls, roofe. windowes &c. more 

TVarton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, than I am well able. For the in- 

1761. p. 73. ] ward and ornamentall part, as the 

p Supple, they. W. «Sc H. wainscott. seats, skreen. marble, 

<i i_The furniture and decora- fretworke,. &c. we must be faine 

tions of the inside were defrayed to soUicite" — See Walton's Life 

from large collections solicited by of Bathurst. p. 67. ~ 
Dr. Bathurst from many persons 



304 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694. 

niator, one that in his late book he published, spoke of 
the vices, and omitted the virtues of men, that he had 
Lynceus his eyes, prying and peeping as a spy. This was 
to please his dean D r . Aldrich, then vice chancellor, who 
sat just behind him, and who before hand had taken part 
with the earl of Clarendon. 

May. Mr. Davenant made surveyor general of the duty on 

salt. 

We hear from Hereford, that the bishop of that see 
with his attendants went to Welby to deface an inscrip- 
tion on a monument erected in that church in memory of 
coll. Jo. Birch, the ministers and churchwardens thinking 
some words thereon were not right for the church institu- 
tion. The words were these " In hopes of resurrection to 
eternal life here is deposited the body of col. John Birch, 
descended from a worthy family in Lancashire. As the 
dignity he arrived at in the field, and the esteem uni- 
versally yielded him in the senate house exceeded the 
attainments of most, so they were but the moderate and 
just rewards of his courage and conduct, and fidelity: 
none who knew him denied him the character of asserting 
and vindicating the laws and liberties of his country in 
war, promoting it's welfare and prosperity in peace. He 
was born the 7 th . of Apr. 1616, and died a member of the 
honourable house of commons, being a burgess for Welby, 
May 10, 1691." — The coloneFs nephew designes to bring 
an action against the bishop for defacing it. 

Jun. 16. Saturday, at 9 at night, I received a subpoena from two 

of the servants of Mag. coll. to appear in the court of 
Common Pleas in Westminster, on the 20th of the same 
month, being Wednesday, to swear to such things, as 
should be there proposed. 

Jun. 19. Tuesday, I went to London with D r . Thomas Bayly of 
Mag. coll. 



i694«] LIFE OF WOOD. 305 

Wednesday, a trial in the court of Common pleas at 20, 
Westminster between the hours of 9 and 1, between 
James duke of Ormond, chancellor of the university of 
Oxford, and the president and fellows of Mag. coll. con- 
cerning the right of nomination, of the principality of 
Mag. hall. The duke challenged it as his by prescrip- 
tion, because he and his predecessors, chancellors of the 
university, have had the nomination of the principal 
thereof, from queen Elizabeth's reign (when Robert earl 
of Leicester was chancellor of the university) to his time. 
The president and fellows of Mag. coll. they claimed the 
nomination, because the hall was theirs, and that the 
principal thereof pays rent to them, that it was originally 
built by the founder, and confirmed and enlarged by the 
coll. But the jury, Oxfordshire men, granted it to the 
duke merely by prescription tempos immemoriale. I then 
gave oath that the register of elections of Mag. coll. 
marked A. was the register that belonged to that coll. 
that the site of Mag. coll. containing Magd. hall was 
situated on the east side of town ditch. 

I returned from London in the company of a little 23. 
poor thing, sir Lacy Osbaldeston. r 

r [It appears that S r . L. O. had y u know y r unworthiness by im- 

taken some liberties with Mr. A. posing upon a generous person, 

W. and endeavoured to turn him and making him a ridicule to the 

into ridicule on account (as Mr. company y u were lately in, be- 

"Wood expresses it, in a letter cause of his then growing infirm- 

which he soon after sent him) of ity; whereas on the contrary y u 

a growing infirmity. This letter should have had a mind sutable 

is preserved among Ballard's col- to y r honor and greatness, of com- 

lection in the Bodleian library, forting and pittying him ; for ac- 

(vol. xiv. p. 19.) and is now given. cording to y e common maxime — 

" Nothing but an implacable the greater the person is, the less 

enmity to immorality and foolery, harme there should be in him. 
and a zeale of discountenancing Al persons y* pretend to pru- 

vanity, hath mov'd me now to let dence will understand their com- 

wood, vol. 1. X 



306 LIFE OF WOOD. [1694- 

July 10. I went to Astrop wells, took up my lodgings at W m . 

Upton's at King's Sutton near thereunto, and continued 
there till the 15th of Aug. 12s. for my carriage backwards 
and forwards, and 5/. for my being there : 4s. 6d. I gave 
for my lodgings per week. 

Edw. Wells, M.A. student of Ch. Ch. spoke a speech in 
praise of D r . John Fell being his obitual day in Ch. Ch. 
publick refectory before dinner, and at dinner time the 
dean and cannons dined there, and the dean entertained 
all the hall with venison. This speech was founded by 
John Cross apothecary, one of the executors of the said 
Dr. Fell. 
24. Sam. Thurston chose town clerk, who had 7 votes more 

than - - - Slatford, by the endeavour of James earl of 
Abington, who got several country gent, that were of the 
house to give votes for the said Thurston. The commons, 
enraged at it, spoke vilely of the earl of Abington, and his 
son, called them Jacobites. He laid in town that night, 
went next day to the bishop's lodgings at Mag. coll. in 
the company of one or two constables to prevent abuses. 

pany before they enter into free y* seeing y u have had a just edu- 

discourse, but y u , like a vain man, cation, and are arriv'd in yeares, 

either out of a high conceit of y r y u play not the coxcomb any 

flashy parts, or to make y r self longer, least a glove be throwne 

the Merry Andrew of the company to y u , y r noddle broke, or y r 

did venter upon a person freely plump podex kickt into a jelly, 
to expose him to scorne to y e so- Farewell, be civil and sober, 

cietie, and to make him a poore and henceforth think not y* all 

and sensless thing. are fools or poor things y 1 are not 

Y u have been bred an acade- B ts . (Baronets). 
mian in the New Inn, and after- For S r . Lacey Osbalston Ba- 

wards, as I have heard, in the ronet, 

inns of court, and in short time To be left at Mr. Blagrave's 

one of y r issue is like to make y u house 

a grandfather, and so consequently in S. Ebbes parish, Oxon. 

to number y u among the old gen- p d to Oxon. 
tlemen ; and therefore consider, 9 July 1694.] 



1694-] LIFE OF WOOD. 307 

About 1 or 2 in the morning Mag, hall plate was stole, Aug. 17. 
the thieves broke open Mag. coll. gate leading into the 
grove, and then by force wrenched open a bar out of the 
window of the buttery. 

Upon D r . Edwards's return from his attendance on the Oct. 
queen as chaplain, about the middle of Oct. reports that 
the queen had given order that a copy of Athsnm et 
Fasti Oxon. be new bound and she will read it: so he 
told D r . Charlett. 

D r . Edwards served his month of Sept. and told me, 
that the queen ordered D r . Edw. Stanley, clerk of the 
closet, to buy for her Athen. et Fasti Oxon. which he 
did, and saw it lay in the closet. 

D r . Aldrich retook his place of vice-chancellor, which is 
the 3 d . year : in his speech he spoke against hatts turned 
up on one side, and after the speech, he dissolved the 
convocation ; but D r . Jane went to him, and put him in 
mind of nominating the vice-chancellors 3 and swearing 
them, which was done. rnirum ! 

The visitation day of the publick library; Mr. Geor.Xov. 8. 
Smalridge spoke a speech in schola lingiiarum, in laudem 
Bodlei. 

D r . Sloan chose physician to Chrisfs hospital. 

This hard winter of 1694 hath strangely indisposed my 
body, and caused a weakness in my left leg, and some 
inkling of a cramp in my left thigh, when I turned in 
my bed. 

Sam. Conant, B.D. rector of - - - in Dorsetshire, was 1695. 
elected rector of Exeter college by 5 votes only, the other j an u 24 
7 fellows would not give votes, because they had before 
elected Mr. - - - Paynter. 

Mr. Tho. Tanner entered his place of chaplain of All 2;, 
Souls coll. 

5 Quaere if not Pro Vice Chancellors. Sed sic MS. W. & H. 

x.2 



308 LIFE OF WOOD. [^95' 

l8 « Monday, 3 hackney coaches containing the vice-chan- 

cellor, some heads of houses, the proctors, orator, and 
servants went to London to present their address of 
condolement to the king, and books of verses on the 
death of the queen. 
3 '• Thursday they were presented to the king at Kensing- 

ton with an address of condolement for the loss of his 
queen, which, while reading, caused tears to stand in his 
eyes ; he gave the vice-chancellor thanks, and the doctors 
with him, and told them, he would stand their friend, &c. 
200 copies were given amongst the nobility at London, 
and elsewhere, one was presented to the king in a purple 
cover. 
Feb. 2. St. Giles's bells rang all night and a bonfire made 

against Bridewell-gate for joy, that Slatford hath carried 
the town clerkship from Thurston. 
4. - - - - Slatford town clerk sworn. Bonfire in town 

ditch against alderman Wright's door, another against 
the George inn in Mag. parish, St. Michael's bells rung. 

Mr. Congreve rec d . a gratuity of 100/. from his majesty 
for an accurate poem, which he wrote on the death of the 
queen. 

Egg Saturday and Candlemas day, the sermon at St. 
Mary's, where one vice-chanc. sat, and at the same a pre- 
sentation of determining bachelors in the convocation, 
where D r . Halton sat ; few bachelors presented, one of 10 
of Wadham coll. one of five of Hert. hall. The rest are 
afterwards to come to save charges. 

Shrove Monday, the university verses on the death of 
the queen were published at Oxford. 

The judges in Westminster Hall gave their opinion in 
the case between the Bp. of Exon and D r . Bury, that they 
could not give any farther judgement in the case, because 
the house of lords had reversed the former judgement. 



1695.] LIFE OF WOOD. 309 

With Mr. J. Ecc. at the house next the Half moon. Mar. 23. 
Two swearing and laughing women, he sweared and 
laughed with them. 

At the hither end of Magd. bridge came out of the hole May 21. 
behind it, and the new herb-house, one - - - Barksdale,* 
and told me I had abused his grandfather, and followed 
muttering, till I came to Magd. college corner : I was 
feign to hold up my cudgell at him. 

With the assessor D r . Gardiner, and put him in mind 28. 
of the act of parliament, and that I am restored to my 
gown, and liberty of suffrage in convocation ; he told me, 
he wished me no harm. 

I put the printed act of parliament into the hands of June 7. 
the assessor D r . Gardiner in open court, and told him in 
the presence of the registers and Mr. Smith of St. John's, 
that I am restored to the university by virtue of the act, 
and left it in his hands. He told me that 'twas fit my 
kinsman Mr. Wood should have done such a thing. 

Mr. Rob. Gorges told me at Port's tavern, that the July 29. 
duke of Brandenburgh had lately sent D r . Wallis a medal 
for decyphering certain letters. 

D r .Rob. Gorges, who had been in Oxford 3 weeks before, Aug. 2. 
read part of the 2 d . volume of Athene, and admiring at 
the industry and curiosity of the author, then told D r . 
Charlett, that he had rather displease half the university 
than displease the said author. 

About the beginning of Aug 1 . 4 th . or 5 th . Mr. Tanner of 
All Souls told me, that - - - Codrington of All Souls, 
who was captain of foot at the siege of Namur, did signal 
service in the taking the town of Namur, for which he 
was rewarded with a captainship of the guards, worth 
about 500/. per annum. 

fc [There was, as Dr. Bloxam informs me, a chorister of this name 
at Magdalen college, at this time.] 



310 LIFE OF WOOD. i l6 95' 

D r . u Gardiner of All Souls died. 

In this month - - - Bouchier, son and heir of D r . Tho. 
Bouchier, died at Witney of the small pox, being newly 
elected a poor child. Some look npon this as a great 
judgement for his covetousness and grinding of the 
poor. 

In this month the plastering of the high altar of New 
coll. was pulled down, and old broken statues discovered. 

After my return from Weston, Sept. 11. I met with 
Edm. Gibson of Queen's coll. soon after, who told me he 
had been at Norwich, and was with bishop Moor, who 
told him that he had read over my book with great 
delight and pleasure, and he would read it over again. 
Sept. 20. Friday, Mr. Tho. Rowney who stood to be burgess of 
Oxford, entertained his voters, and cost him 201. and they 
went away civilly. Recorder Wright entertained his men 
in his backside on Monday following, and being drunk, 
wandered about the city, broke windows, and abused 
many, went to Tho. Rowney's house, and hooted there. 
He came, and hooted with them, then went to Taylor 
the new mayor, and Wood the old mayor, and made 
a disturbance at their doors. These are the fanatical, or 
factious party, and shew what they will do, when they 
are in authority. They broke the windows of Mr. Evans, 
a gent, in Magd. parish, who hath a baylifFs place in the 
house, and is a great stickler for the loyal partie : they 
broke the windows of Howes, a taylor in Hallywell, upon 
the same account. This riot being mostly provoked by 
the town-clerk Slatford, who had formerly obtained his 
place by the endeavours of Wright, recorder, was bound 
over to the session. 
22. Thanksgiving day, Mr. Zinzan of St. John's preached at 

<* George. W. & H. 



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St. Mary's in the morning, there was before vocal musick 
from the organ gallery. 

Wednesday, dined with D r . Charlett, Gandy, Creech, 25. 
and one Harbin, a clergyman, and a Cambridge man by 
education, sometime chaplain to D r . Turner, bishop of 
Ely, but a nonjuror, and in a lay habit. He was desirous 
to see me, so D r . Charlett sent for me, he complimented 
me much, and told me of several matters in his book. 

With Mr. Tanner, to let me know when lord Clarendon Oct. 3 
comes to town. 

Wednesday, at 8 in the morning, I was with the earl of 9. 
Clarendon at D r . Turner's lodgings, and there I began to 
rip up all the matter, how unworthily he had dealt with 
me against all law ; x that no abuse could be made against 



x Things done by Henry earl 
of Clarendon to ruin the 
author and his cause. 

1. His dashing and scoring out 
of the original copies several mat- 
ters relating to his father without 
any authority, which, if they had 
stood, he could not have pretence 
to go to law ; he disarmes the au- 
thor, then fights with him naked 
— he takes away his papers, and 
then bids him plead — he cuts out 
his tongue, and then bids him 
speake. 

2. He endeavoured to set sir 
William Glynn on his back. 

• 3. He entertained two proctors 
contrary to the custome, purposely 
to put Mr. Wood to charge, know- 
ing well that by his greatness and 
money he should overcome him — 
he got Dr. Levet to rake and 
scrape up witnesses to augment 



the charge, because every witness 
that is taken and sworn, money is 
to be given to the register, appa- 
rator, &c. 

4. He returned Mr. Wood's 
submission which he had sent to 
him, to ruin his cause, when his 
proctor put in a plea to make the 
opposite partie prove that he was 
author of Ath. et Fast. Oxon. 

5. He recalled a Habeas Cor- 
pus, in the time of vacation, con- 
trary to all custome. 

6. He very readily put his name 
into the gazet for an infamous li- 
beller, without naming the libells 
what they were. 

And, after all this, the author 
is to submit to what he hath said, 
and be made a tool to recover the 
credit of a person that hath been 
banished 28 years, and dead 20. 

Things done by the author to 



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[1695. 



his father, because he was capable of no law to vindicate 
him, first not in Westminster Hall, because he had been 



please his lordship Henry 
earl of Clarendon. 

1 . The author freely and readily 
communicated that part of the 
copy in the 2 d . part of Ath. et 
Fast. Oxon. which concerned Ed- 
ward earl of Clarendon his father 
before it went to the press ; he 
blotted out many things, which 
if they had stood, there would 
have been no pretence to go to 
law. 

2. He appeared in the vice- 
chancellor's court, which he 
might have refused, if he had so 
pleased, but because he had a 
mind to please the said earl, he 
therefore did appeare, thinking to 
obtain his favour, but you see 
what the event is. 

3. He sent a submission to the 
said earl, to have it put into the 
term catalogues, gazette, &c. but 
he returned it to the court, to ruin 
the plea that the author's proctor 
put in to make the opposite party 
prove that he was author of the 
book. 

4. He sent a letter with a print- 
ed epistle to the said earl for an 
accommodation, and for putting 
an end to the controversy, but he 
returned it to the court to ruin 
his cause. The epistle contained 
the character of the retired life of 
the author, which, one would 
think, would have mollified the 
court. 

5. He dealt freely and gene- 
rously with the said earl and his 



party for an accommodation &c. 
but his generosity was returned 
upon him, to ruin his cause. 

6. He speaks honourably of the 
said earl of Clarendon in his 2 d 
vol. of Ath. et Fasti Oxon. p 
808. and of his father, p. 388 
(Fasti Oxon. vol. 2. col. 13 
edit. 2. Athene Oxon. vol. 2 
col. 530. edit. 2.) 

7. He procured an Habeas Cor- 
pus to prolong the suit, that he 
might gain time to make his peace. 

He denied the translation of the 
matter to Westm. Hall, purposely 
to please him. 

From a loose paper, in the hand 
writing of Mr. A. Wood in bib. 
Bodl. MS. Tanner, 456. W.&H. 

[Wood certainly did his best to 
propitiate lord Clarendon. The 
two following letters in his own 
hand are in the Archives of the 
university, and were produced by 
lord Clarendon's proctors at the 
trial : 

Good M r Dodwell 

I desire y* y u would be pleased 
to represent to his Lordship the 
Earl of Clarendon, y* I offer to 
insert this following advertisement 
in my next vol. of Ath. et Fasti 
Oxon. for hisLdship's satisfaction. 

' ' Whereas in the second vol. of 
" Ath. et Fasti Oxon. particu- 
" larly in pag. 221 & p. 269 there 
" are several reflections upon the 
" then LordChancellour, the author 
" upon further enquiry does find 
" y* he has been imposed upon by 



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dead several years, and not in any court elsewhere civil or 
canon, because he had been banished ; whereupon he said, 



" y e persons yt gave him those ac- 
" counts. Wherefore he desires 
" the reader to take notice yt he 
" does recall those expressions, 
" there being no just grounds for 
" any such insinuations." 

This would be accepted, but 
D r Bouchier out of a severe and 
rigid temper pposes y* I should 
come publickly into the Vice chan- 
cellour's court and pray yt this my 
submission may be accepted and 
registred, and y* I should there 
pay his Lordship's charges and 
give my oath yt I will publish 
within a certaine time the afore- 
said advertisement. 

This additional satisfaction 
seemes very unreasonable to me, 
y* I cannot comply with it. (i) 
Because it containes a double pun- 
ishment, viz. a publick submis- 
sion in court, registred to all pos- 
terity (to w ch the law can only 
force me, if upon a hearing I am 
cast,) and a publick recantation 
in print. (2) Because it will in- 
vite other persons to sue me for 
w* I have said of the phanaticks 
their ancestors, (to w ch I was 
obliged as a faithful historian) 
against whome I can have little or 
no defence, If I consent to such a 
judicial act and confession. (3) 
Thirdly it ties me to a limited 
time to publish my 3 d vol. 5 w ch 
I cannot fairly promise, because 
the bookseller, the licenser and 
printer, will have their owne 
time. 



Pray interceede with his L'dship 
yt he would not leave the method 
of my giving satisfaction to any 
lawyer, or to D r Bouchier espe- 
cially, for yt I have reason to ex- 
pect from him (tho I have never 
offended him in word or action) 
the most cruel usage. 

I am willing the Advertisement 
should be first published in the 
Terme Catalogue of books, (w ch 
will come out in the latter end of 
this next terme) under the title of 
Athene et Fasti Oxon. vv ch 
shall be put therein, wherein I'le 
promise to repeate the same in 
my third vol. provided this may 
be look'd upon as my owne act & 
not seem forced from me by law 
as a convict libeller. 

Upon this proposal I hope his 
lordship will admit me to his fa- 
vour, & not think I am unad- 
viseable, if I am not content to 
be registred in a University for a 
libeller, for whose honour, repu- 
tation & glory I have laboured 
from my youth & spent all yt I 
have gotten. 

As for the charges of the sute, 
I am scarce in a capacitie to pay 
mine owne, For during the raigne 
of this present king I have paid 
all taxes, & am now in paying the 
quarterly tax of i 11 . 1 s . o d : And if I 
pay double taxes, w ch I have been 
several times threatned to doe, I 
must be forced to leave Oxon & 
my public studies, & betake my- 
self to an obscure or meane em- 



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that though he was banished in person, yet they did not 
banish him in honour. Company came in, and stopped 



ployment in the country — so 
wishing y u all health & happiness 
I remaine 

Yr humble servant 
A. Wood. 
Jan. 16, 1692. 

Pray S r keep this paper private, 
& let no body see it, but his 
L'dship, if y u think fit. 

For his worthy Friend 
Mr. Hen. Dodwell. 

May it please y r Lordship. 

Had I had the happiness to 
have knowne y t y u were in Oxon. 
last Octob. I would have waited 
upon, to have satisfied, y u as to 
the matter now in hand, but 1 
knew nothing of y r being here till 
y u were gone. — Soon after there 
was a sute cornenced against me 
in y r name for one or two passages 
mention'd in the second vol. of 
Ath. et Fasti Oxon. concerning 
y r father ; at w ch the generality 
of scholars, (especially those y* 
understand the coinon law) did 
wonder, considering yt in the 
said passages was no mention 
made of Edward, or of Hyde or 
of Clarendon. However in com- 
plyance to y r lordship (tho I am 
no privileged man & so conse- 
quently not subject to the court 
of the chanc. of Oxon.) I did ap- 
peare & stipulate, thinking to be 
favourablely used. But so it is 
yt I having been coarsly treated 
as yet, & in all probability worse 
hereafter, I have hitherto suffered 



in divers respects — (r). As to the 
loss of my pretious time & hin- 
drance of my public studies ; for 
since the comenceing of the said 
sute I have done nothing relat- 
ing thereunto, but for the diver- 
sion of my thoughts arising from 
my hard usage, I have kept such 
company yt I delight not in. (2) 
As to y e loss of the reward w ch I 
expected from y e universitie for 
y e dedication of Ath. et Fasti 
Oxon. of w ch , tho I had a pro- 
mise, yet now they refuse it. (3) 
By the payment of considerable 
summs of money due, as fees to 
legists &c. 

D r Bouchier also tells my proc- 
tor yt I must also pay such fees as 
he thinks fit, yt will satisfy such 
legists yt y u have employed; & 
under yt notion he will get w 1 he 
pleases from me, & and so conse- 
quently ruin me. In order to the 
payment of these moneys, I have 
sold certaine antient manuscripts, 
w ch I intended for the University, 
& am now about to sell other 
books ; and if I should pay double 
taxes, as I have been several times 
threatned to doe, unless I take 
the oaths, I must be forced to sell 
all I have. 

Y r Lordship hath y e reputation 
of a learned man, & of one who is 
a lover of learning & scholars, & 
therefore if y r L'dship (who is also 
one of the chief officers of this 
university) should deal otherwise 
but favourablely with one who is 



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our farther progress. I told him, he had gotten from me 
more money than I should get again in 5 or 6 years, for 

a zealous pretender to learning, & be registred, I shall never be at 



hath spent all his time, even from 
his youth, in doing honour to the 
University of Oxon, may, under 
favour, sound but ill in the eares 
of posterity. 

I do here send to y r honour the 
epistle w ch was to be put before 
the Ath. et Fasti Oxon. but by 
the unworthy dealing of the book- 
seller it was refused to be printed 
— If y r Lordship please to have 
another copie of it to be put before 
y r book (w ch I presume y u have) 
I shall put it into the hands of D r 
Levet y* he might convey it to 
y u (inclosed in a book or parcel) 
unrumpled. There were printed 
here last Octob. 200 & odd of y e 
said epistles, & this is the fifth y* 
I have yet dispersed ; & no more 
are to be dispersed till an end of 
this controversie be made. The 
printer who printed them tells me 
y* he can add at the end of the 
said epist. 8 or 10 lines; & there- 
fore if y r Lordship think fit, or 
only say the word, y* y e retraction 
w** I sent to M r Dodwell & he 
imparted to y u at Magd. hall shall 
be put at the end of the said 200 
copies, it shall be forthwith done, 
& I will, by bond given, see y* 
ever}' book of the said Ath. et 
Fasti Oxon. w ch are in the public 
& college libraries, shall have a 
copie of it put into each book. 
This being just & equitable, there 
need not, I presume, any recan- 
tation be made or registred ; for 
if any be registred, or knowne to 



rest, but continually be troubled 
by presbyterians & fanaticks for 
every little triviall thing. So 
leaving these things to y r lord- 
ship's consideration I remaine 
Y r most humble serrant 
A. Wood. 
From my Lodging neare Mer- 
ton Coll. 16. Feb. 1692. 

For the right honora- 
ble Henry Earl of 
Clarendon at 
Swallowfield 
neare 
Reading 
Paid 4 d . Berkshire. 

When the trial was over, Wood 
wrote a letter to lord Clarendon 
(dated 11 Oct. 1693) in which he 
recounts most of the circum- 
stances he considered as likely to 
operate in his favour, and adds an 
earnest request that his lordship 
would not insist upon the pay- 
ment of his legal expences : " Pray 
Sir be pleased, which shall be the 
last thing that I shall desire of 
you, to do me the favour to pay 
your owne fees, which will not 
be only acceptable to me, but also 
to several scholars in this Univer- 
sitie, who beare a respect to me 
for my indefatigable labours for 
the publick, and greater to you, 
for your conspicuous worth. Were 
I not sure that the paying of your 
fees, which is about 35?. would be 
no more to you than 35 farthings to 
me, I would not desire it of you."] 



316 LIFE OF WOOD. [1695. 

I earned but 2d. per diem. I told him, I am restored 
from my banishment, by virtue of the late act of parlia- 
ment ; he said not, but I was excepted. I told him all 
matter of libels was excepted. He said not, but talked 
after a rambling way. 
Oct. 9. Wednesday, at night, the writings past and sealed be- 

tween me, and Mr. Tho. Rowney, concerning the Fleur 
de Luce annuity, 30Z. per annum, to commence from 24 
June, yet the writings were dated 20 th . Sept. 

10. Thursday, Oxford feast, Mr. Stephens of Merton coll. 

preached. 

12. With S r . Tanner of All Souls, at Binsey chapel, where, 

in the porch, I read and told him the whole history of 
St. Frideswide, and the antiquity of that chapel ; thence 
to Godstow, where I told him the antiquities of that 
place, and all matter of lady Edyve and Rosamond, so 
eat a dish of fish, and went through part of Wolvercote 
home. 

14- Birth day of King James 2 d . meeting of the Jacobites 

at M rs . Harding's house near Hollywell church; musick 
there, and ringing of bells in the church. 

24. Badger the scholemaster was married, so he hathy 

----- New college of the school, married Pointer's 
daughter. 
Nov. 1. Early in the morning I shifted my shirt, and after that 

all my wearing apparell, but by twelve finding an altera- 
tion in me, I was resolved to walk it out, so at one of 
the clock I went to Bay worth, and returning exceeding 
weary; I went to bed at 8 of the clock, but between 1 
and 2 the next, after I had slept four hours, I fell a 
vomiting, and was very uneasy for 3 hours, at length 
drinking a spoonful or two of cherry brandy, it put me 
into a sleep, and sleep I did near three or four hours; 

y Sic. 



1695.] LIFE OF WOOD. 317 

about 10 I rose and was hungry, but putting on my 
cloaths without warming I fell to vomiting again, and so 
continued till 2 or 3 in the afternoon, then slept 2 hours 
and seemed well, but my urine all the while was as red as 
blood. 

I set these things down to prevent the like for the 
future by shifting. 

Monday, visitation of the library, and Mr. - - - Pelling 
of Ch. Ch. made the speech in Schola linguarum in lau- 
dem Tho. Bodley; this was to be done on the 8th day, 
but because the king was to be entertained the next day, 
'twas deferred till 11th. Note the 8th of Nov. is the 
visitation day, but because the king was to come in the 
next day, it was deferred till Monday 11th, and from 
thence deferred till Thursday the 14. 

Let. dated 12 Nov. D r . Wilson bishop of Limerick is 
dead, so another letter dated Nov. 14. 



" In a few days after the seizure above mentioned, 
(Nov. 1.) occasioned, probably, by his putting on damp 
cloaths, Mr. A. Wood's disorder, which was a suppression 
of urine, increased to a violent degree. It was some time 
before he could be persuaded to apprehend any danger, 
and he retired to his chamber to avoid the remonstrances 
of his friends on this account, obstinately persisting in 
his fancied safety. With some difficulty his iDtimate 
acquaintance D r . Charlett, master of University college, 
got access to him, and, after convincing him of the 
danger of his situation, advised him to digest his nu- 
merous papers and to prepare for his dissolution. What 
passed in this conference we are told in a letter from D r . 
Charlett to archbishop Tenison, which is printed by Mr. 
Hearne in Johannis Glastoniensis Chronica, vol. 2. p. 455. 



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" Univ. Coll. Dec. i, 95. 
" Having been absent some days z from this place, I 
crave leave now to give your grace an account of our 



z [Mr. Tanner's Letter to D r 
Charlett concerning M r Wood's 
last illness, &c. from Ballard's 
MSS. in the Bodleian, vol. iv. 
N°. 13. 

Hon'd Master, 

Yesterday at dinner-time M r 
Wood sent for me ; when I came, 
I found M r Martin and M r Bisse 
of Wadh. with him, who had (with 
much ado) prevail'd upon him to 
set about looking over his papers, 
so to work we went, and continued 
tumbling and separating some of 
his MSS till it was dark. We 
also work'd upon him so far as to 
sign and declare that sheet of 
paper, which he had drawn up 
the day before, and calPd it his 
will; for fear he should not live 
till night. He had a very bad 
night of it last night, being much 
troubled with vomiting. This 
morning we three were with him 
again, and M r Martin bringing 
a form of will, that had been 
drawn up by judge Holloway, we 
writt his will over again as near 
as we could in form of law. He 
has given to the university to be 
reposited in the musseum Ashmol. 
all his MSS. not only those of 
his own collection, but also all 
others which he has in his pos- 
session, except some few of D r 
Langbain's Miscellanea which he 
is willing should go to the pub- 
lick library. He has also given 
all his printed books and pamph- 



lets to the said musseum which 
are not there already. This be- 
nefaction will not perhaps be so 
much valued by the university as 
it ought to be, because it comes 
from Antony Wood ; but truly it 
is a most noble gift, his collection 
of MSS being invaluable, and his 
printed books most of them not 
to be found in town. And that 
the university may not be de- 
frauded of his treasure by his re- 
lations, he was willing this article 
should be inserted. " Item, I 
will and desire that all my books, 
pamphlets and papers both print- 
ed and MSS. be immediately after 
my decease delivered by my ex- 
ecutrixes into the custody of D r 
Arthur Charlett, M r Bisse of 
Wadham coll. and M r Tanner of 
All Souls, or any two of them, to 
be dispos'd by them according to 
this my last will and testament." 
So that I could wish you were in 
town, for fear any disturbance 
should be made by his relations 
about them ; but M r Bisse and I 
will endeavour to secure them as 
well as we can. He has conjur'd 
us to look over all his MSS. be- 
fore they are expos'd to the public 
view, to see that there (are) no 
loose foolish papers in them, that 
may injure his memory. Merton 
college people are mighty officious, 
sending him notes and paying him 
visits, either in hopes to suppress 
any thing that he has writ 



1695.] LIFE 0F wood. 319 

laborious antiquary, Mr. Anthony a Wood. Having 
missed him for several days, (more particularly because 
he had left several queries with me to answer, which I 
knew he very impatiently desired) upon enquiry, I was 
surprized to hear, that he lay a dying of a total suppres- 
sion of urine. Immediately I sent to see him, which was 
the 22 d . Nov. His relations sent me word, there were no 
hopes of his recovery, being the eleventh day, but that he 
apprehended no danger, was very froward that they durst 
not speak to him, that therefore they did very much be- 
seech me to come to him, being the only person they 
could think on, that probably he would hearken to. I 
was very sensible of the difficulty, but having been so 
long and familiarly acquainted, I thought myself obliged 
to go without delay. His relations ventured to leave his 
doors unlocked, so I got up into his room, which he never 
let me see before. At first sight, poor man, he fell into a 
fit of trembling, and disorder of mind, as great as pos- 
sible. I spoke all the comfortable words to him, and 
complained that he would not send for me. After he 
had composed himself, I then began to be plain with him. 

(as they falsly imagine) to the The meeting about M r Bing- 

scandal of their college, or else to ham is tomorrow morning at nine 

prevail with him to give some- of the clock. 

thing to their library. He seems I am, 

to be very sensible that his time Rev'd Sir, 

is short, tho' truly he spends his Your most oblig'd 

spirits more in setting his papers obedient servant, 

in order, than in providing for Thorn. Tanner. 

another world. He is very cha- All Souls coll. Oxon. 

ritible, forgiving every body and Nov. 24, 1695. 

desiring all to forgive him : he M r Wood in his will professes 

talkt a great while this evening himself a member of the Church 

with his sister, with whom (he of England, and intends to die in 

had) been so long at variance. the communion of it. 

M r Swall is in town : he came These for the honored 

last night with M r Bas. Kennet. D r Arthur Charlett.] 



320 LIFE OF WOOD. [l6 Q 5- 

He was very unwilling to believe any thing of it, insisting 
that he was very well, and would come to see me at night. 
I was forced to debate the point with him, till at last, 
upon mentioning a parallel case of a common acquaint- 
ance with whom I was conversant every day, he yielded 
and said, The Lord's will must be done. What ivould you 
have me do ? I desired him not to lose a minute in vain 
complaints and remonstrances, but to proceed directly to 
settle his papers, that were so numerous and confused. 
He then asked Who he could trust ? I advised him to Mr. 
Tanner of All Souls, for whose fidelity I could be respon- 
sible. His answer was, He thought so too, and that he 
would in this and in all other particulars follow my advice, 
promising me immediately to set about his will, and pre- 
pare for the sacrament the next day, he having otherwise 
resolved to receive on Christmas day. I was extremely 
glad to find him in so good a temper, and having dis- 
coursed him about several things, I told him I never 
expected to see him again, and therefore took my last 
farewel, telling him that I should hear constantly by 
Mr. Tanner. 

" After I came home I repeated all that I had said in 
a long letter to him, being somewhat jealous of him, and 
sent it by Mr. Tanner. 

"He kept his word punctually, and immediately sent 
to a very good man, his confident, to pray with him, ap- 
pointing his hours, received the sacrament next morning 
very devoutly, made his will, went into his study with his 
two friends Mr. Bisse and Mr. Tanner, to sort that vast 

multitude of papers, notes, letters about two bushel's 

full he ordered for the fire, to be lighted as he was expir- 
ing, which was accordingly done, he expressing both his 
knowledge and approbation of what was done by throw- 
ing out his hands. He was a very strong, lusty man, 



1 695.] LIFE OF WOOD. 321 

aged a 65 years. He was 22 hours a dying. God 
Almighty spared him so long, that he had his senses 
entire and full time to settle all his concerns to his 
content, having writ the most minute particular under 
his hand about his funeral. He has given his books and 
papers to the university, to be placed next his friend sir 
W. Dugdale's MSS. which are very valuable to any of his 
own temper. His more private papers he has ordered 
not to be opened these seven years, and has placed them 
in the custody of Mr. Bisse and Mr. Tanner, of whose 
care I am told he makes me overseer. The continuation 
of his Athene Oxon. in two fol. which he had carried on 
to the 19th of October last (D r . Merret and Dudley 
Loftus being the two last) he gave the day before he 
died with great ceremony to Mr. Tanner for his sole use, 
without any restrictions. His behaviour was very well 
during his illness, was very patient and quiet, especially 
towards the latter end, he asked pardon of all that he had 
injured, and desired the prayers of all the publick congre- 
gations. The last night he was very decently buried, all 
the particulars were prescribed by himself. He has given 
great charge to burn any loose reflecting notes. I beg 
your grace's pardon for this long hasty letter and crave 
leave to remain 

May it please your grace, 
U. C. your grace's 

Dec. 1,95. most obedient and most 

dutiful servant, 

Ar. Charlett." 

a According to his monument 29, 1695. But if we follow his 

in St. John Baptist's church, own account of the time of his 

Oxford, he died in his 64th year, birth he died in the 63 d . or grand 

Nov. 28. 1695. The preface to climacterical year of his age : for 

the spurious (or second) edition he tells us in his Diary that he was 

of his Athene Oxon. says Nov. born on Dec. 7. 1632. Hearne. 
WOOD, VOL. I. Y 



32% LIFE OF WOOD. [ l6 95- 

" SUCH was the last sickness of Mr. Anthony a Wood, 
which put an end to a life of sixty three years, of which 
near forty-nine were spent in a continued pursuit of the 
venerable remains of antiquity, and in preserving them 
for the use of posterity. The large volumes he published, 
together with the collection of curious papers in MSS. 
which he left, by his will, to the place of his education, 
are indisputable proofs of his abilities, industry, and care. 
The singularity which appears in the stile of his composi- 
tions, frequently the subject of ridicule to modern refine- 
ment, should rather be placed to the fault of those times, 
in which he imbibed the rudiments of learning, when un- 
couth phraseology was the prevailing taste, and to that 
recluse way of life which disabled him from correcting it 
afterwards, by enjoying the benefit of improved conversa- 
tion. Contented with a moderate, it might be said, a 
narrow income, he was indefatigable in the pursuit of 
truth, and fearless of danger when employed in delivering 
it to future times. He lived in the practice of strict in- 
tegrity and justice, and died with a pious resignation to 
the divine will, and a sincere repentance of those errors, 
into which the infirmity of his nature had betrayed him. 

" He was attended to the grave by his most intimate 
friends, and buried in the ante-chapel of the church of St. 
John Baptist de Merton in Oxford. In a short time after 
his decease, a small neat monument was erected to his 
memory by Thomas Rowney, esq. containing this short 
but comprehensive epitaph. 

H. S. E. 

ANTONIU S WOOD 

ANTIQUARIUS. 

Ob. 28. Nov. Anno 

1695. ^tat. 64. 



1695-] LIFE OF WOOD. 323 

" There was no occasion, indeed, for a pompous detail 
of his merits in this memorial, since his works afford 
sufficient testimony to his character. The university 
must for ever remember with esteem that son who has 
done so much for her credit, in an ample history of her 
antiquity and magnificence ; nor will his labours ever be 
forgotten, which have so much alleviated those of suc- 
ceeding writers, and for which the historian, the lover of 
antiquity, and especially the biographer have the greatest 
reason to venerate his memory." Warton and Huddes- 
ford. 



APPENDIX 



THE LIFE OF ANTHONY a WOOD. 



No. I. 
Hearne's Account of Wood. 

(From a manuscript in his own handwriting in the Bodleian 
Library, among Dr. Rawlinson's collection, B. 246, entitled 
" Historical collections relating to England, made in the years 
1700, 1701," page 267, &c.) 

Anthony a Wood was the son of Thomas Wood, alias 
a Wood or Awood, bach, of arts and of the civil law of the 
university of Oxon, by Maria la Petite, commonly called 
Pettie, his wife (descended from a gentile and ancient 
family in the county of Oxon). He was borne in the 
yeare 1631, in the parish of St. Joh. Bapt. in an house 
opposite to the forefront of Mert. coll. within the said 
university of Oxon. And after he had been educated in 
grammatical, became student of Mert. col. where he 
took his master of arts degree. But his genius being 
naturally addicted to the study of Eng. histories and anti- 
quities, he closely applied himself to this kind of learning, 
omitting philosophical studies as hardly useful to him in 
searching into ancient writings relating to the antiquities 
of the English nation: yet finding that divers things 
might be inserted in old philosophical MSS, which might 



326 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

in a great measure serve to give the character of a person, 
or to point out divers things pertaining to the illustration 
of any place, he so farre dwelt upon them, as he perceived 
might be thus serviceable to him. After he had made a 
great progresse in these studies, he was for some time at 
a stand, which way might be most necessary and conve- 
nient for him to exercise his faculty for the publick good. 
At last he found nothing would be more acceptable and 
beneficial than the illustration of the antiquities of his 
mother the university of Oxon. Immediately therefore 
he set about so useful a worke, by going over all the col- 
leges, and other public places, and with great diligence 
collecting all inscriptions, both sepulchral and fenestral, 
together with the founders, insigns and monuments, 
which seemed most obnoxious to the injuries of time. 
This being done, he had thoughts of perusing the his- 
tories which had been written of the university in gene- 
ral, or of any house in particular, and to have published 
them with his illustrations and emendations. But his 
collections encreasing daily to a large bulke, he changed 
his mind, and was resolved to write, himself, an entire 
history. Which, after abundance more of pains, he did, 
in the English tongue, which being very acceptable to the 
heads of the university, they got it with the author's leave 
to be translated into Latin (the principal curator whereof 
was bishop Fell) which was so published with this title — 
Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Ooconiensis duobus 
voll. comprehensa, Oxon, 1674: fol. What paines he 
tooke in composing this excellent worke, you may see at 
large in the preface to the reader. Our author designed 
had he lived to have printed the English copy, to have 
added thereto the antiquities of the city of Oxon also, 
and, as in his said antiquities he above once insinuates, 
to have compiled the history and antiquities of his own 



NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 327 

college Merton : but another worke hindred him, namely 
Athene Oxonienses, or an exact history of all the writers 
and bishops, ivho have had their education in the most an- 
cient and famous univers. of Oxon. from the fifteenth year 
of King Henry VII Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 
1690V, &c. To which are added, The Fasti or annals of the 
said university , for the same time: Printed at Lond. in two 
large folios, 1691. In which worke, for the safer conduct 
of the author, in describing and characterizing of persons 
so different in their stations and judgments, he endea- 
voured to secure himself against calumny, and also from 
giving just offence, by holding a commerce of letters 
with three sorts of men, viz. those of the church of 
England, some of which were very communicative ; and 
took much pains in searching and collecting from the 
registers of their respective cathedrals and other churches, 
for the use and satisfaction of our author : 'though he pro- 
fesses himself sorry, a that he had too much cause to say, 
that had he found more of such publick spirited men, his 
work had been proportionably more perfect, especially as 
to the authors of the church of England. The same might 
be said of the second sort, the nonconformists, from one 
or two of which, of learning and candour, the author was 
much informed. But the generality of this sort of men, 
whilst under a cloud of persecution, as they call it, were 
very shie and jealous of imparting what was enquired con- 
cerning their writers, not knowing what use might be 
made of such communications to their disadvantage. If 
therefore what is said of their writers, seem less satisfac- 
tory, the author is not to be blamed, having been forced 
to be silent of some of their writers, or else to use testi- 
monies of them from those of another perswasion. The 

a In his Epistle to the reader. 



328 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

third and last sort were the Roman Catholicks, who were 
always very willing to communicate to the author what- 
soever they knew of their writers in this worke : though 
the distance, and several other circumstances might have 
dispensed with them from any such correspondence. 
However it be, the worke is of great use, and as perfect 
as could be expected, our author being the first, after 
the ancient discoveries of Boston and Leland, who made 
any attempt towards so very desireable a worke. His 
diligence was very singular in the carrying it on; for 
he not onely consulted all the registers relating to the 
university, but all other writings and records, MS and 
printed, whether in the Bodleian, Norfolk 13 or Cottonian 
libraries, whether in the Tower, Exchequer, Paper office, 
or elsewhere, that could give him any notice of these 
authors, or let him into the true knowledge of their lives, 
preferments, and writings. The registers of the ancient 
churches and cathedrals were diligently consulted; the 
wills of the deceased persons were at the prerogative office 
examined; the windows of churches, epitaphs and inscrip- 
tions, were searched ; the genealogy of the authors at the 
Herald's office was enquired into; and no method was 
unattempted which could contribute to a true history of 
these writers, or ascertaine the least date and circum- 
stance of their lives. Which extraordinary care and un- 
wearied industry was undertaken without any other mo- 
tive than a love to truth, and without any other prospect, 
than the benefit of posterity. But so it was, that the 
author having spoken some displeasing words of Edward, 
earl of Clarendon in it, was for that reason expelled the 
university. In the month of August 1654, M r Roger 

b [This collection, both printed served in the library of that insti- 
and manuscript, was given to the tution.] 
Royal Society, and is now pre- 



NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 329 

Dodsworth, the Yorkeshire antiquarie died; after whose 
death my lord Fairfax, who had been a great encourager 
of, and patron to, the said industrious and unwearied Mr. 
Dodsworth in his study of antiquities, took into his pos- 
session not onely all the old manuscripts which he had 
obtained from several hands, but also all his proper 
collections which he had written from MSS, leiger books, 
evidences in the tower at Yorke, in the custody of many 
gentlemen, not onely in Yorksh. but other northern coun- 
ties, and also his collections of monumental and fenes- 
tral inscriptions, &c. which being done, he communicated 
them to D r . Nat. Johnson, a physit. of Yorksh. with 
hopes that he would extract from them, and make a 
compleat booke of antiquities of the West-riding of 
Yorksh. When the said lord Fairfax died, he be- 
queathed the said old MSS and collections (which last 
amounted to 122 volumes at least) to the publicke 
library in Oxon. but were not conveyed thither till 
June 1673 ; which being then a wet season, most of 
them took wet, and had it not been for Mr. Wood 
(whom we are now upon) who with much ado obtained 
leave of the then vice chan. to have them conveyed into 
the muniment roome in the schoole tower, purposely to 
dry them on the leads adjoyning, which cost him a 
monetlr's time to do it, they had been utterly spoyled. 
Anno 1673, was published by M r . (afterwards sir) Wil- 
liam Dugdale the third vol. of the Monasticon Anglica- 
num. Some time before the publication whereof M r 
Dugdale desired M r Wood, that if in his searches to- 
wards the work of Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. he could 
meet with any materials towards the completion of the 
said third volume of Mon. Anglic, he would by all means 
help him to them. Whereupon for the great respect he 
had to the author, and such a noble worke as that was^ 



330 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

he soon after sent him copies of many evidences ; as first 
those fonr inserted in p. 11, concerning Wallingford. Se- 
condly eleven others in p. 13, 14, 15, concerning Little- 
more nnnnery within the precincts of Sandford in Oxford- 
shire, which by a mistake sir William hath added to 
Sandford in Berkshire. Thirdly, three copies of charters 
in p. 18, concerning the hermitage of Musswell in the 
parish of Piddington, Oxfordshire. Fourthly, four copies 
in p. 30, 31, concerning Horkesley a cell to the abbey of 
Tefford. Fifthly, the six copies mentioned in p. 55, 56, 
57, concerning the priory of Cold Norton in Oxonsh. 
Sixthly, the twelve copies in p. 62, 63, 64, concerning the 
lands belonging to the Kt. Templers of Sandford, near 
to, and in the county of Oxon, which he transcribed from 
a leiger book containing all the evidences belonging to 
the preceptory of Sandford; near which place was the 
nunnery of Littlemore before mentioned situated. The 
said leiger book, which was then M r Wood's proper book, 
is now in bibl. Bodl. Seventhly, that copy in p. 77 b, 
concerning Otteham priory. Eighthly, those copies of 
charters in p. 83, 84, 85, concerning the hospital of Brack- 
ley in Northamptonsh. Ninthly, that charter in p. 96 a, 
concerning the hospital of Ginges in Essex, otherwise 
called Gynge-Monteygney. Tenthly, that large charter 
concerning the priory of Newington-Longaville in Bucks 
[p. iii] and others. After he the said William had finished 
and printed the three tomes of his " History of the Ba- 
ronage of England," he sent copies of them to M r Wood, 
with an earnest desire that he would peruse, correct and 
add to them what he could obtain from record or other 
authorities. Whereupon spending a whole long vacation 
in that matter, he drew up at least sixteen sheets of cor- 
rections, but more additions; which being sent to sir 
William, he remitted a good part of them into the margin 



NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 331 

of a copy of large paper of the said three tomes. M r 
Wood was a person who delighted to converse more with 
the dead than with the livings and was, as it were, dead 
to the world, and utterly unknown in person to the gene- 
rality of scholars in Oxon. He was so great an admirer 
of a solitary and private life, that he frequented no assem- 
blies of the said university, had no companion at bed or 
at board, in his studies, walks or journies, nor held com- 
munication with any, unless with some, and those very 
few, of generous and noble spirits : and truly, all things 
considered, he was but a degree different from an Asce- 
tick, as spending all or most of his time, whether by day 
or night, in reading, writing or contemplation. So that 
in truth the before mentioned Herculean work the 
Athene had been more proper for a head or fellow of 
a college or for a publick professor or officer of the uni- 
versity to have undertaken and consummated, than the 
author, who never enjoyed any place or office therein, or 
could justly say he had eaten the bread of any founder. 
He was equally regardless of envy or fame, out of his 
great love to truth, and therefore 'twas no wonder he 
tooke such a liberty of speech as most other authors, out 
of prudence, cunning, or designe, have usually declined. 
And indeed as to his language he used such words as 
were suitable to his profession. It is impossible to think 
that men who always converse with old authors, should 
not learn the dialect of their acquaintance. An anti- 
quary retains an old word with as much religion as an old 
relick. And further since our author was ignorant of the 
rules of conversation, it is no wonder he uses so many 
severe reflections. 

I have been told that it was usual with him for the 
most part to rise about 4 clock in the morning, and to 
eat hardly any thing till night, when after supper he 



LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

would go into some bye ale-house in town, or else to one 
in some village neare, and there by himself take his pipe 
and pot. He was by the vulgar at least taken to be a 
Bom. Cath. and the author of these matters, who hath a 
great respect for his memory, in his inquiries concerning 
him, could never hear any other report. Indeed he shews 
himself that way inclined in his Athene, and I have been 
told he received pensions from some of them, particularly 
from his great friend and acquaintance sir Ralph Sheldon 
of Beoly in Worcestershire, commonly called Great Shel- 
don. But this however I am apt to think proceeded not 
from any averseness to the church of England, but only 
from the encouragement he received from this party, 
more than he did from any church of England man, in 
carrying on his great and tiresome work of Athene, 
for if you will believe what he himself says, and what I 
have often heard reported in Oxon, the greatest help he 
found from any one person in that university, was from 
M r Andrew Allam, vice-principal of St. Edmund's hall, 
who died, to our author's great reluctancy, an. 1685. 
This ingenious retired and modest person helped him 
very much in the notitia of divers modern authors, whilst 
M r Wood himself was day and night drudging in those 
more ancient ; and therefore M r Wood hath deservedly 
given an high character of M r Allam. But so it is, that 
notwithstanding our author's great merits, he was but 
little regarded in the university, being observed to be 
more clownish than courteous, and always to go in an old 
antiquated dress. Indeed he was a meer scholar, and con- 
sequently must expect from the greatest number of men 
disrespect ; but this notwithstanding, he was always a 
true lover of his mother the university, and did more for 
her, than others care to do that have received so liberally 
from her towards their maintenance, and have had greater 



NO. I.] LIFE OF WOOD. 333 

advantages of doing good than he had. Yea, his affection 
was not at all alienated, notwithstanding his being so 
hardly dealt with as to be expelled, which would have 
broke the hearts of some. But our author was of a most 
noble spirit, and little regarded whatever afflictions he 
lay under, whilst he was conscious to himself of doing 
nothing but what he could answer. At length after he 
had, by continual drudging, worne out his body, he left 
this world contentedly by a stoppage of his urine anno 
Dom. 1695, and was buried in the east corner of the 
north side of St. John's church adjoyning to Merton 
college : and in the wall is a small monument fixed with 
these words. 

Antonius a Wood Antiquarius : 1695. 
By his last will and testament he bequeathed (a great 
signe of his love to the university) to the Ashmolean 
museum, adjoining to the public library there, all his 
papers and MSS. as likewise all such printed books as 
were there wanting; which MSS. are in number 127 voll. 
amongst which are of M r Wood's own writing and collec- 
tion about 63 vol. Besides which, in the year 1692, the 
university bought of our author 25 MS voll. ; which are 
very choice, and are now reposited in the Bodleian library; 
to which place he gave also D r Langbain's MS collections 
containing in number 7. 

To conclude ; consider M r Wood at his first entrance 
in the university, you shall find him an indefatigable 
student : after he had taken his degree consider him, and 
you will find his industry not only increased, but also 
directed to the intire good and honour of his mother : 
consider him after his expulsion, and you shall find him 
still of the same temper, having the same respect for her. 
In short, consider him in the whole course of his life, 
none was more studious, none more humble, none more 
virtuous. 



LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 



No. II. 
The Last Will and Testament of Anthony a Wood. 

(Hearne, Adami de Domeram Hist, de Glaston. vol. ii. p. 731.) 
E registro curiae prerogative Cant, extract. 

In the name of God, Amen. I Anthony Wood, Master 
of Arts of the university of Oxford, being sick in body, 
but of sound and perfect memory, do, this twenty-fourth 
day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
six hundred ninety-five, make and ordain this my last 
will and testament (revoking all others by me formerly 
made) in manner and form following. 

Imprimis, I commend my soul into the hands of Al- 
mighty God, who first gave it, (professing myself to die 
in the Communion of the Church of England) and my 
body to be buried in Merton college church, deeper than 
ordinary, under, and as close to the wall (just as you 
enter in at the north on the left hand) as the place will 
permit, and I desire that there may be some little monu- 
ment erected over my grave. Item, as touching the dis- 
tribution of my worldly estate, I dispose of it as followeth. 
First, I give and bequeath to Anne and Frances Wood, 
the daughters of my late brother, Robert Wood, all the 
interest and share I have in the houses, gardens, and 
tennis court, situate, lying and being in the collegiate 
parish of St. John Baptist de Merton, to have and to hold 
to them and their heirs for ever ; and in case they, the 
abovementioned Anne and Frances Wood, should be will- 
ing to sell their share and proportion in the said houses, 
gardens, and tennis court, that then they shall be obliged 
to allow their brothers Thomas and Robert the first tender 
of it, provided that the said Thomas and Robert will give 



XO. II.] LIFE OF WOOD. 335 

for the same as much as any other person. Item, I give 
and bequeath the principle and interest of the two bonds, 
(fifty pounds each) past betwixt me and my brother Ro- 
bert Wood, to the abovementioned i\rme and Frances 
Wood. Item, I give and bequeath unto the said Anne 
and Frances Wood, another bond of one hundred pounds, 
together with all interest from thence accruing, past be- 
twixt me and my brother Christopher Wood (the interest 
of which was paid to the time of his death, after his death 
the interest was paid by his eldest son and heir Thomas 
Wood, and after the death of the said Thomas Wood 
'twas paid by his brother Seymour Wood of London, 
oyleman, till he left off his trade). Item, I give and 
bequeath unto the abovementioned Anne and Frances 
Wood all other money, plate, Jewells, linnen and cloaths, 
that I dye possessed of. Item, I give and bequeath unto 
Mary, the wife of William Hacket gent, all the network, 
that I am now possessed of, and which was formerly left 
me by my mother Mary Wood. Item, I give and be- 
queath unto the University of Oxford, to be deposited in 
the Musseum Ashmoheanum, all MSS. of my own collec- 
tion and writing, excepting such as are otherwise disposed 
of by me to the Bodleian Library. Also I give and be- 
queath to the Musseum before mentioned, all my other 
MSS. whatsoever, now in my possession. Item, I give 
to the said university all my printed books, pamphlets 
and papers, to be deposited in the Musaeum, excepting 
such as are already in the Musaeum. Item, I do will and 
desire, that all my books pamphlets and papers, both 
printed and MSS. be immediately after my decease de- 
livered by my executrixes, hereafter mentioned, into the 
custody of D r Arthur Charlett, and M r James Biss of 
Wadham college, and M r Thomas Tanner of All Souls 
college, or any two of them, to be disposed of by them, 



LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

according to this my last will and testament. Item, I do 

hereby make, ordain, constitute and appoint my said 

nieces, Anne and Frances Wood, joint executors of this 

my last will and testament, to whom I give and bequeath 

all the rest of my goods and chattels whatsoever, not 

herein mentioned. In witness whereof I have hereunto 

set my hand and seal the day and year first above 

written. 

Anthony Wood. 

Signed, sealed and declared] __. _ ,_ ,. 
. / „ iNich*. Martin 

m the presence 01 J 

The mark + of Jone Pinnack 

The mark + of Jone Crawford 

Probatum Londini fuit hujusmodi Testamentum vice- 
simo tertio die mensis Januarii, anno Domini (stilo An- 
glise) millesimo sexcentesimo nonagesimo quinto, coram 
venerabili et egregio viro, Domino Richardi Raines, Milite, 
Legum Doctore, Curiae Prserogativae Cantuariensis Ma- 
gistro, Custode sive Commissario legitime constituto, 
juramentis Annae et Franciscse Wood executricum in 
dicto Testament o nominatarum. Quibus commissa fuit 
administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum, jurium et 
creditorum dicti defuncti, de bene et fideliter adminis- 
trando eadem, ad sancta Dei Evangelia (vigore Commis- 
sionis) juratis Ex. 

Henr. Farrant, Registrar. 
R. C. Deputat. 



NO. III.] LIFE OF WOOD. 337 

No. III. 
Hearne's Memoranda relating to Anthony a Wood. 

(Collected from his MSS. Remarks and Collections preserved in 
the Bodleian library.) 

Anthony would not stoop to act contrary to honour, as 
himself observes. 

Anthony aimM to be a despiser of riches, to live inde- 
pendent and not to be afraid to die. (Volume lxxxiii. 
page 119.) 

I am told by one of the fellows of Merton college, that 
Mr. Ant. a Wood formerly us'd to frequent their com- 
mon-room; but that a quarrel arising one night between 
some of the fellows, one of them, who thought himself 
very much abused, put some of the rest into the court ; 
but when the day for deciding the matter came, there 
wanted sufficient evidence. At last Mr. Wood having 
been in company all the time the quarrel lasted, and put 
down the whole in writing, gave a full relation, w ch ap- 
peared so clear for the plaintiff, that immediate satisfac- 
tion was commanded to be given. This was so much 
resented that Mr. Wood was afterwards expelTd the 
comon room, and his company avoyded as an observing 
person, and not fit to be present where matters of moment 
were discussed, (iii. 79.) 

I have been told by Bp Tanner, that no one was more 
ready to correct his mistakes than Mr. Anth. a Wood, 
and that he was alway well pleased, when he was shewed 
them. Once one told him " M r Wood, I have found two 
or three mistakes in your book." " Have you so," said 
M r Wood, " I thank you, but I have found three or four- 
score to them." (cxliii. 157.) 

WOOD, VOL. I. Z 



338 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

Any papers of Mr. Wood's now (January 13, 1734) begin 
to be valuable, tho' a great many sligbted him when he 
was alive, (cxliv. 14.) 

M r Hobt Wood told me yesterday (June 11, 1729) that 
his uncle Anth. Wood was a wonderful pryer, that he 
used to go out by himself in by-places, wore his hat over 
his eyes, seem'd to take notice of nothing and to know 
nothing, and yet he took notice of every thing and knew 
every thing, (cxxi. 95.) 

Yesterday (June 7, 1727) M r . Benj. Cole told me, that 
he was very well acquainted with M r . Anth. a Wood, and 
used to be often at his lodgings. He said Anth. put a 
great confidence in him, and would order him several 
times to unlock his drawer, and take money out for him. 
He said Anthony was a very passionate man, but when 
out of his passion, he would be very pleasant and good 
humour'd. He said Anthony in his passion would swear 
very much. He said he bound books for Anthony (for 
this Cole was originally a book-binder) and that Anthony 
would once have had him work upon a Sunday, a copy of 
his Athene being in hast to be bound for the duke of 
Ormond, but Cole refused this upon any account. M r 
Cole said Anthony could (when he pleased) hear very 
well, tho' he pretended to be very deaf always, and that 
he hath seen him several times walking under S ( . Marie's 
spire and at some other places, when they have been 
ringing, on purpose to hear the bells, w ch (it seems) he 
mightily delighted in. (cxvi. 124.) 

Mr. Wood when he was consulting materials for his 
Athene Oxon. would frequently go to booksellers and 
generously give money to them purposely to obtain titles 
of books from them, and 'twas observed of him, that he 
spar'd no charges to make y t work as compleat and per- 
fect as he could, (ix. 185.) 



NO. III.] LIFE OF WOOD. 339 

I am told Ant. a Wood's way of going to bookseller's 
shops was always when scholars were not there, as at 
dinner time, or some other such time, (lxiii. p. 111.) 

Anthony used to take catalogues of scarce pamphletts 
and other books writ by Englishmen especially, that he 
found either in bookseller's shops or gentlemen's studies, 
and afterw ds he would make indexes to those collections. 
There are several vols of this nature in Mus. Ash. (lxxxiii, 
106.) 

Ant. a Wood, when he used to go out, as he was a tall 
man, went stooping, and he generally carryed his stick 
under his arm, and seldom held it in his hand, a thing 
much taken notice of by those that knew him, who also 
observ'd, that he went slow. (xcvi. 3.) 

On Saturday last (March 7, 1723) in the afternoon I 
call'd upon D r . Thomas Tanner, the new canon of X f 
Church, who told me, that Ant. a Wood used spectacles 
when he was about 25 years of age, and so continued to 
use them till the last. (cii. 134.) 

I was told yesterday (Feb. 13, 1725) by several persons, 
that M*. Ant. a Wood tho' he was but 64 years of age, 
had the looks of one of fourscore, (cxi. 24.) 

Memorandum. That M r . Antony a Wood told M r . 
Martin several times before his sickness, that he intended 
to receive the sacram* at his hands in the church of 
Witham the following Christmass. 

That during his sickness he was almost constantly 
attended by M r Martin, M r Biss &c. who can certifie y* 
he always desired the ch. of England prayers, which he 
had constantly read to him twice a day for y e last week 
of his sickness ; that he desired the sacrament to be given 
him by M 1 " Martin ; that he himself particularly ordered 
that it should be inserted in his will w ch was made 3 or 4 
days before his death ; that he died in the communion of 

z 2 



340 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

the church of England as by law established : that there 
was no papist or reputed papist that visited him during 
his last sickness. This was transcribed at the master's c 
desire from the original of M r Tanner, (vi. 23.) 

At the end of the master's copy of Athene Oxoni- 
enses is a testimony in MS t that M r Wood died in y e 
communion of the church of England, and y* there was 
no papist came to him during all the time of his sickness. 
He rec d the sacrament from M r Martin of Hart hall for 
whom he seeni'd to have a very good opinion, (i. 127.) 

A. "Wood, when in his last illness, being a suppression 
of urine, went down to Merton coll. church, and shew'd 
the very place where he would be buried. 

He was speechless a day or two, but made a motion 
with his arm to have certain papers burnt, (cxix. 5.) 

Being at dinner yesterday (Dec. 3, 1705) with D r Char- 
lett, he was pleas'd to tell me y fc upon M r Ant a Wood's 
falling ill, he went to him (having more interest, w th him 
y u any other person in Oxon.) and told him y c 'twas the 
opinion of physitians and others yt his disease (being a 
stoppage of urine) was very dangerous, and therefore 
desir'd him to prepare himself for death by prayers, and 
putting his papers (of wh ch he had a great number) into 
good order: This had so good effect upon him, yt he 
presently told the doctor he would take his advice, and 
desir'd him to let no other person read prayers or admin- 
ister y e sacrament to him but M r . Martin, who promis'd 
he would not. After this he ask'd the doctor whom he 
thought the fittest person to leave certain papers with, 
and to put the rest in order to be dispos'd of as he should 
give order. He told him Mr. Tanner. Accordingly M r 
Martin came constantly to M r Wood and read prayers to 

c D r Charlett, master of University college. 



NO. IV 



.] LIFE OF WOOD. 341 



him, and M r Tanner sorted all y e papers, some of wh ch 
M r Wood laid by in order to be burnt when himself 
should give a sign to Mr. Tanner by stretching out his 
hand. When he found himself ready to leave the world, 
he gave this sign, and M r Tanner burnt those papers w ch 
were put by for y fc intent. The rest M r Wood left to y e 
Ashmolean museum, and the publick library, besides di- 
vers to M r Tanner, upon condition he would be honest and 
take care (as indeed M r Tanner promised and so did D r 
Charlett too, should be faithfully perform/ d) to digest and 
make them publick. The D r farther told me y* M r Wood 
died with a great deal of patience and submission, much 
like a Christian and philosopher, (vi. 38.) 



No. IV. 

Dr. Rawlinson's miscellaneous Collections relative to 
Anthony a Wood, from the Rawl. MSS. in the 
Bodleian. 

M r . Rowney erected the monument in Merton colledge 
for M r . A. Wood, for which D r . Wood made an epitaph, 
which was short ; though his works will be his monument. 

At his death his coins, which were many and curious, 
were given to the publick library, to New college library, 
and part sold to M r . Porter a goldsmith, to whom he had 
lately given 112/. for a yearly annuity of 12Z. M r . Row- 
ney gave him the choice of 300/. or 30Z. per annum for 
his life, which last he chose and never received one pay- 
ment. 

In his youth he was troubled w th an imposthume, fatal 
to the growing plant. 



842 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

Elected Post Master of Merton. 

Thomas Wood vel a Wood ex aula Lateport 1618 Mar. 
10. E. 7. 4to. 

Whereas it hath been made appear before us, That M r 
Wood fellow of Merton coll. is guilty of divers miscar- 
riages and misdemeanours particularly laid open before 
us. We therefore order that the said M r . Wood shall be 
suspended from his commons and all other profitts of the 
house for one week, and after suspended from being tutor 
in the coll. untill farther orders. No. 270. Cone, the 
Visitation of the Univ. of Oxon. pa. 346. 

He made no water within 17 days. 

During his whole sickness he professed he would dye in 
the church of England, was unconcerned at the thoughts 
of death. 

Out of the Register belongs to S fc . John Bapt. Merton 
Coll. 

" Nov r 29 Anthony a Wood Gent, died about 4 a clock 
in the morning, and was buried in the chappell, close to 
the wall next to the north door, the next day following. 

1642. Octob. 31. Tho. a Wood Gent, an antient inha- 
bitant of this Parish died. Buried in the north part of 
the outer chappell with escocheons. 

1666. Mar. 1. M rs . Mary a Wood widdow of Thomas 
a Wood gent, was buried w th escocheons in the north part 
of the outer chappell not far from the grave of her 
daughter in law Eliz. a Wood before mentioned. She 
died 28 February." 

Note that the Queen [Henrietta Maria] lodged w th her 
court in Merton coll. which was from the year 1643 to 
1646. The divers marriages, christenings and burials in 
this church in this parish of S fc John Bapt. carefully re- 
gistred by M r John Gurgany one of the chaplains, but 
about the time of the surrender of Oxford (Jun 1646) the 



NO. IV.] LIFE OF WOOD. 343 

said Register among other books was stoln from him by 
the souldiers, who took it out of his window ia the vault- 
chamber next to the chappell. This he hath several times 
told me A a W. 

M r . Wood was wont to say that in the times of K. 
Charles 2 and K. James 2 when popery was thought 
to be favour' d, that they would call him a presbyterian. 

In his sickness there are some remarkable passages of 
him ; viz. that he should say when among a company of 
his friends, that He knew he was a dead man, and that he 
had but a few days to live, notwithstanding which, he was 
then able (striking his cane with vehemence on the 
ground) to cane any man who should dare tell him that 
he was so. 

He loved an ascetick life so much, that he had no 
partner at his meals for above 30 years together, but 
had them privately in his own chamber. 

He lived longer in the distemper which he at length 
died of, than could be reasonably expected, and all the 17 
days of his illness he daily took out books and papers 
which he burned as they occurred, in imitation of a 
Roman emperour, amongst which I have heard there 
was a Diary of his own life, which it is said he obliged 
M r . Tanner not to publish till seven years after his 
death. 

His indefatigable industry was so high, that through 
earnestness he would burst out of bleeding suddenly, 
insomuch that he had a bason frequently held under 
him that he might not spoil his papers. 

It has been falsely reported that M r . "Wood never took 
his degree, which is utterly false, a person being now 
living present with him then at the schools ; which is as 
false as Calamy's calumny of his father's being a non- 
conformist divine : he keeping a tennis-court. 



344 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

When any nobleman or gentleman came to visit this 
university he was always sent for, to give them a proper 
and clear account of things. 

M r . Tho. Wood of Chr. Church his answer " I submitt 
unto the visitours of the university of Oxford, as from the 
parliament." 

Raphe Batters c "I submit to the authoritie of parlia- 
ment in this visitation." 

M r . Sheldon died May 30, 1710 and left to Christ- 
Church quadrangle 1000 lb he was a non-juror, and nephew 
to archbishop Sheldon. 

The whole of the above from a M.S. in D r . Rawlinson's 
own hand. 



No. V. 
Character of Anthony a Wood. 

(By the rev. William Huddesford B. D. late fellow of Trinity 
college, and keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford.) 

The character which Gassendus d gives us of Peireskius 
may with propriety be used as descriptive of M r Wood's. 
" As to the care of his person, cleanliness was his chief 
object, he desiring no superfluity or costliness either in 
his habit or food. His house was furnished in the same 
manner as his table, and as to the ornament of his private 
apartment, he was quite indifferent. Instead of hangings, 
his chamber was furnished with the prints of his parti- 
cular friends, and other men of note, with vast numbers 
of commentaries, transcripts, letters and papers of various 
kinds. His bed was of the most ordinary sort ; his table 

c Ralph Bathurst. 

d Gassendus in Vita Peireskii, Hagae Com. 1655, p. 208. 



NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 345 

loaded with papers, schedules, and other things, as was 
also every chair in the room. He was a man of strict 
sobriety, and in no means delicate in the choice of what 
he eat. Always restrained by temperance, he never per- 
mitted the sweet allurements of luxury to overcome his 
prudence." Such as is here represented was the disposi- 
tion of M r Wood : of so retired a nature as seldom to 
desire or admit a companion at his walks or meals; so 
that he is said to have dined alone in his chamber for 
thirty years together. As he was seldom inclined to 
enjoy the company of his own sex, so he was totally 
averse to any connexion with the other; esteeming, as 
appears in his writings, a life of celibacy to be a state of 
merit. Yet it must not be supposed, that he entirely ' 
excluded himself from all social converse : among a select 
party of friends he was courteous and obliging, his con- 
versation being truly agreeable on account of his exten- 
sive reading, his knowledge of those minute circumstances 
of history which had escaped the notice of others, and the 
various anecdotes his memory was stored with for the en- 
tertainment of company. For these reasons he was fre- 
quently requested to attend such strangers as were desirous 
of an accurate knowledge of the university and its his- 
tory ; which entreaty he often complied with, to their 
satisfaction, altho' to the hindrance of his own studies. 

His chief view, and that from an early period of his 
life, was to do credit to the place of his education. This 
great end he proposed to effect by two means : first, by 
giving an exact history of it from its beginning, tracing 
the various improvements made in it, and accounting by 
these, for its latter dignity and reputation. A design this 
truly laudable, and the more so in one who had been but 
a small sharer of its emoluments, nor was possessed of 
any office in it that might make such a testimony of zeal 



346 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

for its honour and effect, either of duty or gratitude. 
That it was an undertaking attended with great difficulty 
and trouble is indisputable, and that it was a most for- 
tunate one for the public is equally certain ; since the 
collecting together, and the publication of these ines- 
timable records, must preserve them, to the latest times, 
against those injuries they are liable to from length 
of age, from the malice of enemies, and not unfrequently 
from the inattention and carelessness of their possessors. 
The other method by which M r . Wood proposed to do 
honour to these seats of learning, was by collecting an 
account of the lives of such of their members, as by their 
conduct and writings had done credit to their institutions, 
discipline and laws. For the due performance of both 
these extensive undertakings, not only the most un- 
wearied diligence, but also the most strict impartiality 
was absolutely necessary. How far M r . Wood was pos- 
sessed of these requisites, must be determined by the 
works themselves, but as these have not always met 
with candid judgment, and as prejudice has frequently 
held the scale, a further inquiry into their real merits 
may not be unpleasing. 

The Historia et Antiqttitates Oxonienses is a work 
of such extent and so full of matter, that it would have 
been esteemed a mark of great industry, had it been the 
joint production of many persons. Its authenticity as to 
the facts related in it, and its accuracy as to the dates of 
them, have, in general, been justly applauded. It received 
ample testimonies of its use and value from the cotem- 
poraries of the author : no bad indication of the merit of 
both. The titles of ( c antiquarius diligentissimus, peritis- 
simus," are to be found in every work, when any mention 
of them is made; and tho' some few enemies of Mr. 
Wood have reflected upon his performances, others of 



NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 347 

them have voluntarily confessed his merits, which have 
extorted the epithets of " honest and industrious," from 
those who were by no means candid to his failings. 

What care, assiduity, and labour, such a work, as that 
we are now considering must require, may be left to the 
decision of those who have ever been engaged in this kind 
of undertaking. To gain access to the records and secret 
papers of private persons, is found to be no easy task. 
Surprise, ignorance, and sometimes downright obstinacy, 
throw obstacles in the way. To collect and arrange ma- 
terials of this sort, unassisted by those to whom they 
belong, nay, frequently hindered by them, is a work of 
great difficulty. If this be the case in small and more 
confined attempts, the trouble must proportionably in- 
crease, as the object, or plan, becomes more extensive. 
The examination and digesting of the records, even of a 
private family or society, consisting of various donations, 
purchases, assignments, leases, all of these, perhaps, lying 
in confusion and disorder, require a large portion of time 
and industry. We may, therefore, easily conceive what 
pains and labour were necessary to complete that work, 
which contains not only the general annals of a large col- 
lective body, but also the particular memoirs of the many 
small members of it; each of them differing from the 
others in their institutions, fortunes, and emoluments. 

An ingenious biographer, who is no less a good judge 
of antiquarian literature, "laments that D r . Fell ever pro- 
posed a translation of this work, which would have been 
infinitely more pleasing in the plain natural dress of its 
artless, but accurate author, there being many particu- 
lars, unavoidably arising from the subject, which read 
ridiculous, and are sometimes unintelligible, in Latin; 
besides which, the circumstantial minuteness of local 
description, with which the work abounds, so interesting 



348 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

and agreeable to an English reader, and to persons fami- 
liarly acquainted with the spot, appears superfluous, in- 
significant, and tedious to foreigners." e It was, no doubt, 
a desire of extending the reputation of the university, 
that suggested this scheme to D r . Fell; to promote which 
also, greater care, than perhaps was necessary, was taken 
in the stile and composition of the translation. The 
author himself, was certainly of opinion that the attention 
paid to elegance of language, had greatly injured the 
original, by often giving an improper turn to some pas- 
sages, and obscuring the true sense of others. Accord- 
ingly he has testified his disapprobation of this perform- 
ance, not only in his own memoirs of his life, but also in 
that particular copy of the work, which is deposited in 
the Ashmolean museum; where the quick sense of the 
injury has tinctured his remarks, with some degree of 
asperity/ Upon the whole, tho' we have an elegant and 



e Warton's Life of Ralph Bath- as a prime ornament thereof. This 

urst, D. M. president of Trinity book being by him written in 

college, Oxon. p. 147. English, it pleased the prime sages 

f In M r . Aubrey's MS. Life of of that universitie (not without 
M r . Hobbes in the Ashm. mu- his consent,) to have it put into 
seum, are the following passages : Latin : to the end that the fame 
"An. Dom. 1670. One M r . An- of the said universitie might be 
thony a Wood of Merton coll. in better known and understood be- 
Oxon, had finished the Hist, and yond the seas ; but the translators 
Antiq. of that Universitie, which being more fit for declamatory 
he had, with incomparable indus- than historicall versions, were 
trie, laboured in for ten years, or several errours committed, before 
thereabouts. In this HLst. are any could perceive them. — The 
contained the Lives of most of the deane of Ch. Ch. being zealous 
eminent writers that have been for the forwarding of this work, 
bred up in each coll. and hall did not onlie discharge the trans- 
there. Among which, he wrote a lators,but most of the impression, 
breif of the life of Mr. Hobbes, at his owne expence." Thus far 
though then living ; and this he in M r . Wood's hand writing ; 
did because he looked upon him what follows is in Aubrey's : 



NO.\ 



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LIFE OF WOOD. 



349 



classical history of the university of Oxford, and as to the 
facts related in it, a just and accurate one, yet it must be 



"The deane of Christ Church hav- 
ing the absolute power of the press 
there, perused every sheet, before 
'twas to be sent to the press, and 
after, and maugre the author, and 
to his great grief and sore displea- 
sure did expunge and insert what 
he pleased : among other authors 
he made divers alterations in M r . 
Wood's copie, in the account he 
gives of M r . Tho. Hobbes of 
Malmesbury's life, in pag. 376, 
377, lib. 2. f Vir sane de quo 
(inter tot prosperae et adversae 
famae qui de eo sparguntur homi- 
num sermone) hoc verissime pro- 
nuntiare fas est, animum ipsi ob- 
tigisse, uti omnis sciential capacis- 
simum et refertum, ita divitiarum, 
saeculi et invidiam negligentis si- 
mum ; erga cognatos et alios pium 
et beneficum; inter eos quibus- 
cum visit hilarem et apertum, et 
sermone libero : apud exteros in 
summa semper veneratione habi- 
tum, etc' this and much more 
was quite dashed out of the 
author's copy by the said dean." 
The following is also added by 
Mr. Wood " 1669, Cosmo, prince 
(since great duke) of Tuscany, 
came into England, and having 
heard much of his fame, went 
more than once to visit this great 
philosopher, in whose company 
he seemed much to delight. And 
because he would retaine the me- 
mory of such a noted person, and 
express his veneration for him, 
did carry with him (besides what 



his retinue did,) most of his works 
and picture : all which are re- 
served at this time, as cimilia or 
rarities, in the library and closet 
of the said duke; than which 
none in the Christian world 'tis 
thought goes beyond." — This was 
put in the Hist, of Oxon. by the 
author in M r . Hobbes's life, but 
dashed out by the publisher. 
"D r . Sam. Sorbiere also, his great 
acquaintance, mentions him with 
venerable respect in the relation 
of his voyage, (edit. Par. Gallice, 
an. 1664, pag. 65. &c.) into Eng- 
land, and tells us also, that his 
picture (which was drawn by the 
hand of M r . Sam. Cooper, the 
prime of limners of this age,) 
hangs in his majesties (Charles 2.) 
closet at Whitehall. His picture 
also is in great esteem in France, 
insomuch that the virtuosi thereof, 
have come in pilgrimage to the 
house of the said Sorbiere to see 
it." — This also was blotted out by 
the publisher. — "Outlandish Gen- 
tlemen also, when they came to 
London, did make it one of their 
prime businesses to visit him." — 
This also was blotted out. —"King 
Charles 2. loved him and his face- 
tious company ; and after his re- 
storation, allowed him 100I. per 
an. out of the exchequer. To sum 
up all, he is excellently well skilled 
in the Latin and Greek, a great 
critick and poet, and above all a 
philosopher and mathematician." 
— This also was blotted out by the 



350 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[append. 



allowed, that it would have given much greater satisfac- 
tion to those readers, who can derive any use from it, in 



publisher. The following is in 
M r . Aubrey's hand writing ; with 
some corrections and insertions 
by M r . Wood. « D*. Fell did not 
only expunge and insert what he 
pleased in Mr. Hobbes's life, but 
also in the lives of other very 
learned men to their disparage- 
ment ; particularly of D r . John 
Prideaux, afterwards bishop of 
Worcester, and in the life of D r . 
Twiss, &c. — These additions and 
expunctions being made by the 
sayd deane of Christ Church with- 
out the advice, and quite con- 
trary to the mind of, the author, 
he told him it was fitt M r . Hobbes 
should know what he had done, 
because that his name being set 
to the booke, and all people know- 
it to be his, he should be liable to 
an answer, and so consequently be 
in perpetuall controversie. To this 
the deane replied, 'yea in God's 
name and great reason it was, that 
he should know what he had donne, 
and what he had donne he would 
answer for, &c.' Hereupon in 
the beginning of 1674, the author 
acquaints J. A. (M r . Hobbes's 
correspondent,) with all that had 
passed, J. A. acquaints M r . 
Hobbes. M r . Hobbes takeing it 
ill, was resolved to vindicate him- 
self in an epistle to the author. 
Accordingly an epistle dated Apr. 
20, 1674, was sent to the author 
in MS. with an intention to pub- 
lish it, when the History of Ox- 
ford was to be published. Upon 



the receipt of M r . Hobbes's epi- 
stle by Anthony a, Wood, he forth- 
with repaired very honestly, and 
without any guile, to the dean of 
Ch. Church to communicate it to 
him, and to let him see that he 
would do nothing underhand, 
against him : The Deane read it 
over carelessly, and not without 
scorne ; and when he had donne, 
bid M r . Wood tell M r . Hobbes, 
' that he was an old man, had 
one foote in the grave; that he 
should mind his latter end, and 
not trouble the world any more 
with his papers, &c.' or to that 
effect. In the meane time M r . 
Hobbes meetes with the king, in 
the Pall Mall in St. James's parke, 
tells him how he had been served 
by the deane of Christ Church in 
a booke then in the presse, entitled 
the Hist, and Antiq. of the Univ. 
of Oxford, and withal desires his 
majestie to be pleased to give him 
leave to vindicate himselfe. The 
king seeming to be troubled at 
the dealing of the deane, gave 
M r . Hobbes leave conditionally, 
' that he touch nobody but him 
who had abused him, neither 
that he should reflect upon the 
universitie.' M r . Hobbes under- 
standing that this History would 
be published at the common Act 
at Oxon, about 11 July the said 
yeare, 1674, prints his epistle, 
that he had sent to M r . Wood, at 
London, and sends downe divers 
copies to Oxon, which being dis- 



NO 



.v.] 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



351 



its native form and simplicity. Perhaps, this satisfaction 
may, at some future period, be given to the public ; since 
the original is carefully preserved in the Bodleyan 
library.s 

Having examined the merit of the historian, we may 
proceed to consider the esteem due to the biographer, 
another character which M r . Wood has supported in his 
Athene Oxonienses. It seems probable that having a 
natural bias to the study of antiquities, he had early 
meditated a work of this nature. At the age of seven- 
teen, we find him copying inscriptions, epitaphs, and 
arms, and other monuments of this sort, wherever his 
business or amusement called him. The large collections 
which he made during his excursions on such pursuits, 



persed at coffee houses and sta- 
tioners' shops, a copy forthwith 
came to the deanes hands, who 
upon the reading of it fretted and 
fumed at it, as a most famous 
libell, and soon after meeting with 
the author of the history, chid 
him, telling him withal, that he 
had corresponded with his enemy 
(Hobbes). The author replied, 
that surely he had forgot what he 
had donne ; for he had communi- 
cated to him before, what M T . 
Hobbes had sayd and written : 
whereupon the deane recollecting 
himselfe, told him that Hobbes 
should suddenly heare more of 
him, and that he would have the 
printer called to an account for 
printing such a notorious libell : 
so that the last sheet of paper 
being then in the presse, and one 
leaf thereof being left vacant, the 
deane supplied it with this answer : 



both the epistle and answer, I 
here exhibit, (which are to be seen 
in some particular copies of the 
Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon.) To 
this angry answer the old gentle- 
man never made any reply, but 
slighted the doctor's passion and 
forgave it : but it is supposed 
it might be the cause, why M r . 
Hobbes was not afterwards so in- 
dulgent, or spared the lesse to 
speake his opinion concerning 
the universities, and how much 
their doctrine and method had 
contributed to the late troubles." 
s The whole of Wood's History 
and Antiquities of the University 
of Oxford, has since been printed 
in the original English, by the 
care of the rev. John Gutch, M.A. 
chaplain of All Souls and Corpus 
Christi colleges, 4to. Oxford, 1786, 
1790, 1792, 1796. 



352 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

may be seen in the general Catalogue of the MSS. of 
England, fol. Oxon. 1696 : or in that more minute and 
particular one, published by William Huddesford, B. D. 
the late keeper of the Ashmolean museum, in 8vo. 1761 : h 
and it may easily be conceived how useful they were to 
him, in ascertaining the births, stations, works, and deaths 
of those persons whose histories he proposed to write. 
The intention and design of this elaborate work may be 
seen in the introduction and prefaces to it. One of these, 
written by a person of no mean reputation in the literary 
world, asserts that " the author, through the whole course 
of his life, declined the pursuit of any private interest or 
advantage, and hath only according to his abilities, en- 
deavoured to promote the honour and glory of that nation 
wherein he had been born, and more especially, of that 
university where he was educated." Such a testimony as 
this, though coming from a friend, might reasonably in- 
cline us to entertain a favourable opinion, at least, of a 
work undertaken by so disinterested a person. 1 The author 



h Reprinted by sir Thomas dedicate y r worke to the king, for 

Phillipps at his private press at by his (or such other person's 

Middle Hill, Worcestershire, small meanes that be y r freindes) you 

folio, 1824. may happily one tyme or other, 

1 Wood had been strongly haue some kindness done you, 
urged by Fell to dedicate his His- though you must looke for no re- 
tory of Oxford to the king, but ward in money. My father Dug- 
was not to be persuaded. The dale had nothing given him vpon 
following letter from Ashmole is the presentacon of either of his 
among Wood's Miscellaneous Cor- two last Monasticons, but the last 
respondence preserved in the mu- lord treasurer Clifford being will- 
seum : ing to doe him a kindness, ob- 
" My good friend, teyned of the king a privy seale 

" Coming to towne yesterday I for the custome of so much Paper 

met with y r Letter, in answer to as came to 400Z. towardes the 

w ch I would advise you to doe work of the Nobility he hath now 

as D r . Fell would haue you, and in press. Nor had I any thing 



NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 353 

indeed constantly asserted, that the facts related in the 
Athene Oxon. were founded upon his own knowledge 
of them, or else upon the public memorials of the times 
referred to upon every occasion : the writings too of each 
person being enumerated, together with the account given 
of him, may serve as a touchstone of the truth of the 
character affixed to his name ; nor can any injury be 
done, where the reader's judgment must necessarily be 
directed by this appeal, made to sentiments openly avowed 
and published. Yet it may be alleged, and justly too, 
that the same fact may be so represented, the same mate- 
rials so disposed, as to make a very different appearance, 
and to produce very different effects, according to the art 
and management of the relater. This must be allowed, 
and here, perhaps, it is that the enemies of Mr. Wood's 
reputation have directed their chief force. Living in 
times of discord and confusion, it is asserted, that the 
prejudice of party, and a close attachment to one side, 
have undoubtedly given a false tint to the portraits he 
draws. That resentment at the manners of those times 
has, in many instances, infused some degree of acrimony 
into his stile cannot be denied : yet when we expect can- 
dour, let us also be candid in our judgment on this foible. 
Let it be considered, that a recluse way of life, observant 
perhaps of all moral and religious duties, may make every 
deviation from virtue and piety, appear much more enor- 
mous to a mind thus sequestered, than it might to one 

given me upon the presentation to doe something for me. With 

of my booke to the king, till last my hearty service to you, I remaine 
yeare, that I also found out a way " Your most affectionate 

for the king to bestow a boon of " friend and servant, 

400I. also vpon me, and haue been " E. Ashmole. 

further remembred by him both in " x 7 June, 1674. 
point of honor, and a recomenda- "My humble services to D r . 

con to the companions of the order, Fell, D r . Yates and D r . Barlow."] 
WOOD, VOL. I. a a 



354 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

more conversant with mankind; and which, by being 
nsed to see variety of wickedness, is less disgusted at the 
smaller degrees of it. Let it be considered also that the 
" quorum pars fui," though no epithet be added, will 
always have some influence on the mind, and give a poig- 
nancy to its effusions. We must allow these to have been 
the case and situation of our author. He had, among 
many others, lamented the fall of monarchy and episco- 
pacy, effected by methods unjust and cruel. He saw the 
fury of misguided zeal pour forth its wrath on the seats 
of learned repose. He saw, in various departments, men 
of deep and extensive literature, forcibly thrust from the 
chairs of science, to make room for illiterate petitioners 
for the emoluments annexed to them. He saw the pulpit, 
from whence sound and rational doctrines had been de- 
livered to an attentive and judicious audience, become the 
stage of cant, hypocrisy, and illiberal absurdity. He ob- 
served a shoal of indigent pretenders to knowledge croud- 
ing from other universities, in hopes to share the spoils 
of his unjustly ejected friends. He saw arbitrary impo- 
sitions and engagements, contrary to former oaths already 
obligatory, forced upon the consciences of those who 
desired only to retain their due rights and possessions by 
the patrons (as they call themselves) of civil and religious 
liberty. Should it not be forgiven to an eye witness of 
these transactions, if his pencil described them in livelier 
colours, than those which a more dispassionate painter, 
because less intimately acquainted with them, would now 
use, at a distant period of time? That many errors 
should be discovered in so voluminous a work as the 
Athene Oxon. cannot be matter of surprize. It is rather 
difficult to conceive how the author, in his situation of 
life, could make such ample collections. His own industry 
was, indeed, unwearied, and his correspondence so exten- 



NO. V.] LIFE OF WOOD. 355 

sive, that the postage of the letters he received was no 
small burthen on his narrow income. 

It was necessary for him to make application to living 
authors for their own histories, and sometimes for those 
of their ancestors or friends. As this was the surest me- 
thod of being accurate in what he delivered down to pos- 
terity, it is a great pity that he had reason even to 
suspect that he had been unfairly and unjustly treated 
in the answers they sent him. k But if this was the case, 
it greatly extenuates the mistakes he has been guilty of. 

But it may be further urged, that, in some particulars, 
the gloomy disposition of M r . Wood has exhibited itself 
to the prejudice of characters through mere personal dis- 
gust, and from much weaker incentives than those already 
mentioned. No instance of this nature can be produced, 
perhaps, with more propriety than the account given of 
D r . South, (Ath. 2. ed. vol. ii. c. 1041.) This severe, and 
in some respects unjust character of this gentleman, is 
said to have taken rise from a joke of the doctor's, uttered 
probably by him without any design of giving offence. 1 
It was the doctor's custom, if not foible, to suffer neither 
sacredness of place, nor solemnity of subject, to restrain 
his vein of humour. But it must be allowed, that, in the 
present instance, the wit was illiberal and cruel : not that 
it deserved so severe a punishment as M r . Wood intended, 
and which, perhaps, he would afterwards have mitigated ; 
the effect of which, after all, is greatly lessened, since D r . 
South' s character has not suffered much in their esteem, 



k See Hearne's Preface to Caii full suppression of urine ; upon 

Vindicice, p. L. which South, in his jocose manner, 

1 A. Wood complained to Dr. told him, that if he could not make 

South of a disorder with which he water, he must make earth. An- 

was much afflicted, and which ter- thony went home, and wrote 

minated in his death: viz. a pain- South's Life. 

a a2 



356 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

who are acquainted with his jest : and it would have been 
forgiven, if the same kind hand which has not, in the 
second edition of the Athene Oxonienses, scrupled to 
retrench the exuberance of the author's pen, had here 
also exerted itself in obliterating what is neither a credit 
to the person who drew the character, nor to the object of 
his reprehension. 



NO. 



VI.] 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



357 






No. VI. 
Pedigree of Anthony a Wood. 

(From an ancient Roman Breviary, in the Calendar prefixed, to which 
Mr. Wood has entered the nativities, marriages, and obits, of his family ; 
in mus. Ashmole. Oxon. No. 8554, 109. C. 12. With additions from his 
Diaries and the Regist. of St. Joh. Bapt. Merton, as well as a pedi- 
gree compiled by the historian of Durham, Robert Surtees, Esq. of Mains- 
forth, and M. A. of Christ Church, and obligingly sent to the editor by 
Mrs. Surtees.) 



Rich. Wood of Lancashire, 
died at Islington, Mid- 
dlesex, 1594. 



Eliz. Jackson of Lancashire, 
sister to Hen. Jackson of 
Oxford, draper. Died Dec. 
1596. 



I 
Robert Wood 
born x$>j$ a ha- 
berdasher of hats 
at the plow & 
harrow on Lud- 
gate Hill. 



Marg. Wood dau.=Tho. Wood nat. 



of Hugh Wood of 

Kent, ob. at Tets- 

worth, j 4 Jul. 

l62t. 



Islingdon — Jan. 
15S0. con. 10 
Oct. 1622, ob. 
19 Jan. 1643. 



I 
Roderick 

Wood 



Mary Pettie dau. Tho. Frith, inst.= Eliz. Wood James Wood 

ob. 4 Jul. ob. — Sept. 
1627. 1629. 



of Rob. Pettie of 

Wivehold Oxon. 

ob. 28 Feb. 1667, 

ast. 6g. 



can. of Windsor 

7 Aug. 1610 : 

ob. 1631. 



Tho. Wood 


Edw.Wood, 


Rob. Wood, = 


=MaryDrope, 


Anth.Wood 


Eliz. Seymour, = 


nat. at Tets- 


nat. 3 Sept. 


nat. 13 Jun. 


nat. 8 Mar. 


nat. 17 Dec. 


dau. of Will. 


worth, 24 


1627, fell, of 


1630. con. 


1637, sep. 8. 


1632 : ob. 


Seymour, of 


May 1624,0b. 


Mert. coll. 


29 Sept. 


May, t 718. 


28 Nov. 


Oxon. attor- 


at Droghe- 


1648, M. A. 


16^9, ob 4 


set. 80. 


J 69<, 


ney, sepult. 20 


da in Ireland 


proct. of the 


16 Jul. 




aet. 64. 


Feb. 1667. 


— Dec. 


Univ. Ap. 25, 


1686. 








1651. 


ob. 22 May, 












i655- 












Mary Wood, 


1 
Tho. Wood, 


Rob. Wood, 


1 
John Wood, f 


I 
Anne Wood, 


Edw.Wood, 




nat. 4 Jul. 


nat. 20 Sept. 


bapt. 8 Jan. 


nat. 1 5 Aug. 


bapt. 12 


nat. 17 Sept. 




1660. 


1661. prob. 


1662. 


1664. 


Aug. 1666. 


1667. 




fell, of New 














coll. 24 Aug. 




| 




1 




1679.* 




Anne Wood, bapt. Frances Wood. 








j 5 Apr. 1 


669. 





I s 

Christoph. 

Wood, 
nat. 2 Jul. 
1635, con. 

13 Apr. 

1658, an 

attorney, 

ob. 24 Sep. 

1684. 



: Margery Hanks, 
dau. of Tomson 
Hanks, of Aston, 
near Bampton, 
Oxon. widow of 
Geo. Coxeter, of 
Bampton, gent. 



I 6 

John Wood.' 1 

nat. 9 Apr. j 

1638, ob. : 

1639,40. ij 



1 



Mary Wood, Tho. Wood, 

nat. 7 Jun. nat. 5 Sept. 

1659, Sep. 22 1660, ob. 20, 
Feb. 1660. 166 1. 



I .. I I I . . 

Anne Wood, Tho. Wood, SeymourWood, Kath. Wood, 

nat. 27 Dec. an attorney, of London. 

1661 : sep. ob. 10 Aug. 

20 May 1664. 1686 : caelebs. 



Christoph. Wood, Benj. Wood, and Eliz. Wood, Anne Wood, 
died young. (twins.) 



Peter Wood. 



* Dr. Tho. Wood of New coll. married 
lately to Mrs. Baker, 1705. Hearne, MS. 
Coll. iv. 125. See more of him, xi. 28. xvii. 
86. 

t About a fortnight since died Mr. John 
Wood, a distiller of Oxford, nephew of the 



Charles Wood, B. A. 
chapl. of New coll. 
sep. 20 Aug. 1713. 



late Ant. a Wood. He hath left a very in- 
different character behind him. He was 
buried in St. John Baptist's church-yard- 
He was brother of Dr. Thomas Wood. 
Hearne, MS. Collections, Dec. 23, T723, vol, 
xcix. p. 179, 



358 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[append. 



No. VII. 
Proceedings against Anthony a Wood. 

(These proceedings first appeared on two folio broadsides; they 
were reprinted in one of Curll's publications, viz. "Miscellanies 
on several curious subjects : now first publish'd from their re- 
spective Originals. 8°. Lond. 17 14." They are here given with 
some additional documents.) 

ALLEGATIO. 



r 



Officium Domini promo- 
tum per Honoratissimum 
Dominum Henricum Comi- 
tem de Clarendon contra 
Antonium a Wood Univer- - 
sitatis Oxon. A.M. ob libel- 
lum sive libellos famosos ab 
eo scriptos compositos et 
publicatos. 



Quo die Smith et Lloyd nomine 
procuratorio et ut procuratores legi- 
timi Honoratissimi Domini Domini 
Henrici Comitis de Clarendon om- 
nibus melioribus via modo et Juris 
forma, etc. necnon ad omnem et 
quemcunque Juris effectum exinde 
quovismodo sequi valent allegant et 
in his scriptis in jure proponunt con- 
junctim, divisim, articulatim prout 
sequitur, viz. 



Exhibita Februarii io mo . 
i6 9 |. 

Imprimis, That M r . Anthony a Wood the Defendant in 
the cause before and during the time of printing the 
Athene Oxonienses and Fasti Oxonienses, volume the 
second exhibited in this Cause and within the time in 
the second Article of the Articles given in and admitted 
in this cause mentioned, did shew the same or many sheets 
or att least some one sheet thereof written with his own 
hand to divers or att least to some one person of this 
university and within the precincts thereof, and did own 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 359 

the same to have been composed in writing by him the 
said M r . a Wood. Et ponunt ut supra. 

II. Item, That the said M r . a Wood did within the 
precincts of this university correct all or att least some 
of the first printed sheets or proof sheets of the said 
Athene Oxonienses et Fasti Oxonienses, volume the 
second, as they were first composed or sett att the presse, 
more especially those sheets which contain columne the two 
hundreth twenty first, and columne the two hundreth 
sixty ninth, in order to their being printed off and pub- 
lished as now they appear and are. Et ponunt ut 
supra. 

III. Item, That the said M r . Anthony a Wood was and 
is the author of and did compose in writing in English a 
certain book, (now extant in Latin and printed in folio) 
to which the title is Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis 
Oxoniensis duobus voluminibus comprehensae. Ooconii, e 
Theatro Sheldoniano. mdclxxiv. one copy whereof is here- 
unto annexed, and as author of the said book did sell 
the same and did receive the summe of an hundred, 
sixty, fifty, fourty pounds as a price or gratuity for the 
same (ponunt tamen de qualibet aha summa, etc.) And 
did cause a draught of his coat of armes to bee placed 
in divers or att least one capital letter of the printed 
copyes of the said book, more particularly in the capital 
letter C before an epistle or preface of the said book (haec 
que fuerunt et sunt notoria publica pariter et manifesta 
et de et supra praemissis laborat publica vox et fama) 
quern quidem librum et epistolam sive prefacionem pars 
haec promovens hie exhibet et pro hie lecta et inserta 
habet et haberi petit, et vult quatenus, etc; Et ponunt ut 
supra. 



360 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

IV. Item, That since the said Athene Oxonienses et 
Fasti Oxonienses volume the second were printed pub- 
lished and disseminated in such words as now they ap- 
pear and are, the said M r . a Wood hath given and 
distributed to and among divers persons of and within 
the said university copyes of the same and to such per- 
sons and others who before had the said Athene et 
Fasti Oxonienses hath given copyes in print of a cer- 
tain epistle or preface composed in writing and printed 
or caused to bee printed by him the said M r . Wood in 
the top whereof is placed his intended picture and in 
the capital letter whereof C, is placed his coat of arms 
one copye whereof is hereunto annexed sic incipiens; 
" To the reader/' et sic terminans, " he submits them and 
himself, Ab iEd. pat. in Yic. S. J. Bapt. in antiq. et 
nob. civ. Bellos. 5 Jun. 1691. And bearing behaving 
and owning himself as the author of the said Athene 
et Fasti Oxonienses did in perpetuall memory that he 
was the author thereof desire and direct the persons to 
whom he gave the said copyes to fasten them before 
the two volumes of the said Athene et Fasti Oxo- 
nienses as they now are published. And the said M r . 
a Wood had discourse with all or some of them con- 
cerning the painter's and the engraver's error in making 
the said picture no more like him the said M r . a Wood. 
Et ponunt ut supra. 

V. Item, That the coat of arms described and expressed 
in the said capital letter C in the next foregoing portion 
mentioned is the coat of armes used and claimed as par- 
ticularly belonging to the family of a Wood alias Wood, 
late and now inhabiting and living within the parish of 
St. John Baptist scituate and being within the university 
and city of Oxford and the males of the said family or 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 361 

some of them have the said coat engraven in the seals 
wherewith they usually seal their deeds and letters, and 
the said coat of armes is the same with that expressed 
and described in the capital letter C before that epistle 
or preface mentioned in the third portion of this matter 
(prout collatione habita, etc.) Quas quidem epistolas 
sive prefaciones per hie lect. insert, invocat. inspect, et 
exhibit, etc. And that the said M r . Anthony a Wood is 
a more than ordinary retired and reserved person. Et 
ponunt ut supra. 

VI. Item, That the unfrequent and lesse usual abbre- 
viations sett down att the end of the said epistle or 
preface, viz. Ab JEd. Pat. in vie. S. J. Bapt. in Antiq. et 
nob. civ. Bellos. in the use and understanding of scholars 
are thus extended and doe import and signifye as fol- 
loweth, viz. that the said epistle or preface to which the 
said abbreviations are subjoined was dated ab aedibus pa- 
ternis (of the writer) in vico Sancti Johannis Baptistae in 
antiqua et nobili civitate Bellositi : and that Bellositum is 
in the opinion of antiquaries and other learned men, one of 
the ancient names of this place which wee now call Oxford. 
Et ponunt ut supra. 

VII. That the said Anthony a Wood in the month of 
June 1691. did and still doth live and inhabitte in a cer- 
tain house scituate within the said parish of St. John Bap- 
tist in the university and city of Oxford which said house 
was accounted and esteemed to bee the house of the said 
Anthony a Wood's father deceased, and wherein his said 
father in his life time did live inhabit and abide. Et 
ponunt ut supra. 

VIII. Item, That during the space of one — two — three 



362 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

years last past, there hath not been any person save the 
said M r . Anthony a Wood who hath lived in the house 
of his ancestors within the said parish of St, John Bap- 
tist, who hath claimed or used the said coat of arms to 
himself and family appropriate and hath sufficient know- 
ledge in the matters delivered in the said Athene et 
Fasti Oxonienses and hath lived so retired a life as the 
author of the said Athene et Fasti is described in the 
said epistle or preface to doe. (Quam quidem epistolam 
et praefationem, &c.) Et ponunt ut supra. 

IX. Item, That within the space of five — ten — fifteen — 
twenty years last past, (ponunt tamen de quolibet alio 
annorum numero) the said M r . Anthony a Wood and he 
only hath had and made a general inspection and search 
into all the registers of matriculation and of the acts of 
convocations and congregations of this university from 
the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ninety, and 
took extracts of the same in order as he said to the 
writing of some book. And hath since given the Regis- 
trary of the said convocation one or more copyes of the 
said two volumes of Athene et Fasti Oxonienses (in 
recompence for the pains he sustained during the said 
search) the second volume whereof agreeth in all things 
with that annexed to the Articles in this Cause, more 
particularly conteineth the infamous libells mentioned in 
the third and fourth Articles of the said Articles. Et 
ponunt ut supra. 

X. Item, That the said M r . Anthony a Wood on the 
sixth day of July in the year of our Lord sixteen hun- 
dred fifty two, was admitted to and took the degree of 
batchelaur of arts in this university : and on the four- 
teenth day of December in the year of our Lord sixteen 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 363 

hundred fifty five was admitted to and took the degree of 
master of arts in this said university according to the 
common and ordinary course and form of the statutes 
concerning both those degrees : and took the oaths requi- 
site to the same : and from and after his said admission 
to the said degree of batchelaur of arts, or att least of 
master of arts to the time of the commencement of this 
suite hath resided and continued the course of his studyes 
within the precincts of this said university and worne an 
academicall habitt, and hath continued to keep his bed, 
clothes, books and other necessary utensills within the 
precincts of this said university, and hath not ceased to 
have a right to frequent the public assemblies of the said 
university, and so much the said M r . Anthony a Wood 
hath published and declared. Hocque fuit et est noto- 
rium, etc. Et ponunt ut supra. 

XI. Item, That since the said Anthony a Wood hath 
lived in the said house in St. John's parish aforesaid when 
and as oft as priviledged persons of this university have been 
taxed and assessed by the pole or otherwise, apart from 
other persons inhabiting within the precincts thereof and 
by persons of their own body the said Anthony hath also 
been taxed and assessed by the assessors of the said uni- 
versity. Et ponunt ut supra. 

XII. Item, Quod premissa omnia et singula fuerunt 
et sunt publica notoria pariter et manifesta et de et super 
premissis laborat publica vox et fama, etc. 

Unde facta fide, etc. 



364 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 



Officium domini promotum per honoratissimum Dominum 
Henricum Comitem de Clarendon, contra Antonium a 
Wood universitatis Oxoniensis, ob libellum sive libellos 
famosos ab eo scriptos, compositos et publicatos. Martii 3, 
1694. 

In Dei nomine, Amen. Nos Henricus Aldrich, S. T. P. 
vice-cancellarius universitatis Oxon legitime constitutus, 
tibi Antonio a Wood universitatis praedictae in artibus 
magistro, omnia et singula subscripta et subsequentia, 
articulos, capitula, sive interrogatoria morum et excessuum 
tuorum reformationem, praesertim libellum sive libellos 
famosos a te scriptos, compositos et publicatos concer- 
nentes sive tangentes ex officio nostro ad promotionem 
honoratissimi viri et domini Henrici Comitis de Claren- 
don, damus, objicimus, ministramus et articulamur pla- 
num, plenum et fidele responsum in scriptis in quantum 
de jure teneris respondere, dari et fieri requirentes. Et 
objicimus et articulamur conjunctim et divisim et de quo- 
libet prout sequitur. 

I. Imprimis Tibi praefato Antonio a Wood objicimus 
et articulamur, quod omnes et singuli, qui aliquid scripto 
composuerunt, aut quoquo modo in vulgus sparserunt aut 
disseminaverunt, aut publicaverunt, unde viri alicujus 
(praesertim magistrates) sive vivi, sive mortui, existi- 
matio et fama laedi possit, sunt de jure communi debite 
corrigendi et puniendi, et speciatim ex statuto hujus uni- 
versitatis, Tit. De moribus conformandis, § De famosis 
libellis cohibendis : omnes et singuli libellos famosos, sive 
componentes, sive disseminantes et publicantes, sunt tan- 
quam pacis perturbatores banniendi. Et objicimus et 
articulamur ut supra, &c. 



NO. VII. ] LIFE OF WOOD. 365 

II. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulainur, quod mensibus 
Martii, Aprilis, Maii, Junii, Julii, Augusti, Septembris, 
Octobris, Novembris, Decembris, Januarii, Februarii, an- 
norum Domini 1690, 1691 ; mensibusque Martii, Aprilis, 
Maii, Junii, Julii, Augusti, Septembris, Octobris, et No- 
vembris, Anni instantis 1692 ; eorumve mensium et anno- 
rum pluribus uno sive aliquo, Tu librum quendam prae- 
tensum, cui titulus praetensus, Athene Oxonienses; 
an exact History of all the Writers and Bishops 
who have had their education in the most ancient 
and famous university of oxford, from the fifteenth 
year of King Henry VII, Anno Domini 1500, to the 

END OF THE YEAR 1690, REPRESENTING THE BIRTH, FOR- 
TUNE, PREFERMENT, AND DEATH OF ALL THOSE AUTHORS 
AND PRELATES, THE GREAT ACCIDENTS OF THEIR LIVES, AND 
THE FATE AND CHARACTERS OF THEIR WRITINGS I TO WHICH 
ARE ADDED, THE FASTI OR ANNALS OF THE SAID UNIVER- 
SITY FOR THE SAME TIME. THE SECOND VOLUME. Revera 

autem libellum famosum seu potius libellos famosos, infe- 
rms deductos, in se continentem; charitate semota, et ex 
odii fomite, infra praecincta universitatis praedictae mali- 
tiose scripto composuisti et scripsisti, seu saltern scribi, ac 
deinceps typis mandari et imprimi mandasti et curasti 
et fecisti ; aut bibliopolae aut bibliopolis quibusdam ven- 
didisti, aut cum iisdem ut imprimerentur, contraxisti, 
copiasque dicti praetensi libri sic impressi, ac libellos 
sive libellum famosum in se continentem falsitates, infra 
praecincta universitatis praedictae, et loca vicina, et late 
circum vicina ejusdem sparsisti, disseminasti et publi- 
casti, saltern spargi, disseminari, et publicari fecisti et 
procurasti; quarum copiarum una praesentibus annexa 
est, (eamque et omnes et singulas sententias et clausulas 
ejusdem, pro hie exhibitis, insertis, lectis, et repetitis 
pars promovens habet et haberi petit, quatenus ex parte 



366 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

sua, et officii in ea parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter, neque 
alio modo.) Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 

III. Item, Magis speciatim tibi objicimus et articula- 
mur quod infra tempus in proximo praecedenti articulo 
mentionatum, et inter alia in dicto libro, sic, ut praemit- 
titur, composite, scripto, impresso et publicato, contenta, 
charitate semota, et ex odii fomite infra universitatem 
Oxoniensem praedictam, et loca vicina, ac circumvicina 
ejusdem, malitiose scripto composuisti, scripsisti, seu 
saltern scribi, ac deinceps typis mandari et imprimi man- 
dasti, procurasti ac fecisti ; aut bibliopolae aut bibliopolis 
quibusdam vendidisti, aut cum iisdem ut imprimerentur 
contraxisti, impressaque infra praecincta universitatis 
praedictae sparsisti, disseminasti seu saltern spargi, disse- 
minari et publicari fecisti et procurasti (unde honoratis- 
simi viri ac domini Edvardi Hyde militis, nuper Comitis 
de Clarendon, regni Angliae Domini Cancellarii, necnon 
Cancellarii hujus universitatis, et patris naturalis et legi- 
timi partis hujus promoventis defuncti existimatio et fama 
laedi possit) libellum famosum, sive verba haec Anglicana 
sequentia, viz. After the restauration of King Charles II. it 
was expected by all, that he (quendam Davidem Jenkins, 
unum e judicibus regis in partibus Wallise Australibus 
virum meritissimum innuendo) should be made one of the 
judges in Westminster hall ; and so he (eundem Davidem 
innuendo) might have been, would he have given money 
to the then Lord Chancellor, (praefatum honoratissimum 
virum ac dominum Edvardum Hyde militem, nuper Co- 
mitem de Clarendon, regnique Angliae Dominum Can- 
cellarium, necnon Cancellarium hujus universitatis, pa- 
tremque naturalem ac legitimum partis hujus promoventis 
defunctum innuendo) but our author (praefatum Davidem 
Jenkins innuendo) scorning such an act, after all his 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 367 

sufferings, he retired to his estate in Glamorganshire : 
prout in dictae copiae hie exhibitae columnis 220, et 221, 
continentur ; aut iis similia in effectu (quam quidem 
copiam, et omnes et singulas sententias et clausulas ejus- 
dem pro hie exhibitis, insertis, lectis et repetitis, pars 
promovens habet et haberi petit, qnatenus pro parte sua, 
et officii in ea parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter neqne alio 
modo.) Et objicinms et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 

IV. Item, Magis speciatim tibi objicimus et articula- 
mur, quod infra tempus et loca superius in secundo arti- 
culo mentionata in dicto praetenso libro, sic ut praemit- 
titur, composito, scripto, impresso, et publicato; ex odii 
fomite, . cbaritate semota, malitiose scripto composuisti, 
scripsisti, seu saltern scribi, ac deinceps typis mandari, et 
imprimi mandasti, procurasti et fecisti, aut bibliopolae 
aut bibliopolis quibusdam vendidisti, aut saltern, cum 
iisdem, ut imprimerentur, contraxisti, impressaque spar- 
sisti, disseminasti et publicasti; seu saltern spargi, dis- 
seminari, et publicari fecisti et procurasti (unde etiam 
praefati honor atissimi viri ac domini Edvardi Hyde militis, 
nuper Comitis de Clarendon, regni Angliae Domini Cancel- 
larii, necnon hujus universitatis Cancellarii, et patris 
naturalis, et legitimi partis hujus promoventis defuncti 
existimatio et fama laedi possit) libellum famosum, sive 
verba haec Anglicana sequentia, aut iis similia in effectu, 
viz. After the restoration of K. Charles the second, he 
(quendam Johannem Glynn hominem, ut tibi placet, ini- 
donium innuendo) was made (innuendo regis) eldest Ser- 
jeant at law, by the corrupt dealing of the then lord chan- 
cellor (praefatum honoratissimum virum ac dominum 
Edvardum Hyde militem, nuper Comitem de Clarendon, 
regni Angliae Dominum Cancel] arium, necnon Cancella- 
rium hujus universitatis, patremque naturalem et legiti- 



368 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

mum hujus partis promoventis defuncti innuendo) prout 
in copiae praedictae exhibitae columna 269 continentur, 
(quam quidem copiam, et omnes et.singulas sententias 
et clausulas ejusdem pro hie lectis et insertis pars pro- 
movens habet et haberi petit, quatenus pro parte sua et 
officii in hac parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter neque alio 
modo.) Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 

V. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, de quibuslibet 
aliis verbis, sententiis, et clausulis in et per totum dictum 
librum tuum praetensum, cujus copia hie, ut praemittitur, 
exhibita est, sparsis et contentis, ad existimationis sive 
famae praefati honoratissimi viri Edvardi Hyde militis, 
nuper Comitis de Clarendon, laesionem sive diminutionem 
quomodolibet sonantibus, (quam quidem copiam et omnes 
et singulas sententias et clausulas ejusdem pro hie lectas 
et insertas, pars promovens habet et haberi petit ; quate- 
nus pro parte sua et officii in hac parte nostri faciunt, et 
non aliter neque alio modo.) Et objicimus et articula- 
mur, &c. ut supra. 

VI. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod tempus 
reditus sive restaurationis Caroli secundi regis erat mense 
Maii, anno Domini 1660, hocque fuit et est notorium, 
publicum et manifestum. Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. 
ut supra. 

VII. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod prae- 
fatus David Jenkins, mense Decembris, anno Domini 1663, 
et praefatus Johannes Glynn, mense Novembris, anno 
Domini 1666, ex hac vita decesserunt. Haecque fuisse et 
esse vera tu praefatus Antonius a Wood novisti et noscis, 
intelligisti et intelligis, prout columnis 222 et 270 dicti 
libri tui praetensi, cujus copia hie, ut praemittitur, exhi- 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 369 

bita est (quam quidem copiam et omnes et singulas sen- 
tentias et clausulas ejusdem pro hie lectis et insertis pars 
prornovens habet et haberi petit, quatenus pro parte sua 
et officii in hac parte nostri faciunt, et non aliter neque 
alio modo) liquet et apparet. Et objicimus et articulamur, 
&c. ut supra. 

VIII. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod prae- 
fatus bonoratissimus vir Edvardus Hyde miles, et Comes 
de Clarendon, erat Dominus Cancellarius Angliae unicus, 
et e consiliariis regiis unus, toto ac omni tempore, a 
tempore reditus sive restaurationis Caroli secundi Regis 
praedicti, necnon Cancellarius hujus universitatis, a mense 
Junii, seu saltern Novembris, anno Domini 1660 usque ad 
annum Domini 1667. Haecque fuerunt et sunt vera, 
notoria, publica, ac pariter manifesta. Et objicimus et 
articulamur, &c. ut supra. 

IX. Item, Tibi Antonio a "Wood objicimus et articula- 
mur, quod es in artibus magister, et persona privilegiata 
hujus universitatis Oxoniensis, et tarn ejus intuitu, quam 
ratione criminum superius deductorum intra praecincta 
dictae universitatis ut praemittitur, commissorum et per- 
petratorum jurisdictioni hujus curiae in hac causa subditus 
et subjectus. Et objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 

X. Item, Tibi objicimus et articulamur, quod omnia et 
singula praemissa fuerunt, et sunt vera, publica, notoria, 
pariter et manifesta, deque omnibus et quolibet eorum 
laboravit et laborat in praesenti publica vox et fama. Et 
objicimus et articulamur, &c. ut supra. 

Unde facta fide, &c. 



WOOD, vol. i. b b 



370 LIFE OF WOOD. [ APPEND. 

Die 3 Martii 169J-. Wood et Cook, nomine procurator™, 
ac ut procurator es legitimi dicti Antonii a Wood, omni- 
bus melioribus via, modo et juris forma, fyc. necnon ad 
omnem et quemcunque juris effectum eocinde quovis 
modo sequi valentem, dicunt allegant, et in his scriptis 
in jure proponunt, conjunctim, divisim, articulatim 
prout sequitur ; viz. 

Imprimis. This party proponent doth alledge that in the 
14th year of King Charles II. there was and is at present 
now in force an act of parliament, entituled, An Act for 
preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treason- 
able and unlicensed books and pamphlets, and for regulating 
of printing and printing-presses. In which statute or act 
of parliament, amongst other things, it was, and is en- 
acted ; That no private person or persons whatsoever shall 
at any time print, or cause to be printed, any book what- 
soever, unless the same book, together with all things and 
matters thereunto annexed, be first entered in the book 
of the register of the company of Stationers of London : 
And unless the same book or pamphlet, and all matters 
and things thereunto annexed, and therewith to be im- 
printed, shall be first lawfully licensed and authorised to 
be printed by such person and persons only, as are con- 
stituted and appointed to license the same, according to 
the direction and meaning of the said act. Quod quidem 
statutum pars proponens hie invocat, et pro hie led. et 
insert, habet et haberi petit, et vult, quatenus fecit pro parte 
sua et non aliter, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 

II. Item. That the book entituled Athene Oxonienses, 
Vol. II. exhibited by the party promovent in this cause, 
the 17 th day of November 1692 with the preface and table, 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 371 

and other matters and things thereunto annexed, was first 
entered in the book of the register of the company of 
Stationers of London, according to the abovesaid act of 
parliament ; and that the abovesaid book, together with 
all matters and things thereunto annexed, was lawfully 
licensed and authorised to be printed, by one or both of 
the principal secretaries of state, or by their, or one of 
their appointments, according to the abovesaid act of par- 
liament. Quod quidem statutum pars proponent hie invo- 
cat, et pro hie lect. et insert, habet et haberi petit quatenus, 
&c. Et ponit ut supra. 

III. Item. More particularly, that one M r . Fraser was 
appointed and constituted supervisor or licenser of all 
books of profane history, by one, or both of the principal 
secretaries of state, in the year 1690, 1691, and 1692 
(j)onit tamen pars proponens de aliquo alio annorum numero, 
plunbus sive uno) and was in the time aforesaid generally 
so reputed and taken ; and that the said Fraser, so con- 
stituted and appointed as abovesaid, supervised and 
licensed the printing of the abovesaid book, entituled 
Athene Oxoniexses, Volume II. exhibited by the party 
promovent in this cause, 18th of November 1692; and 
that if there is, or are, any passages in the abovesaid 
book contrary to good manners, the government, or go- 
vernours of the church and state, or reflecting upon any 
person or persons, the aforesaid licenser, or the principal 
secretary of state, by whose appointment the said licenser 
did act, was, and is only answerable for them, as by the 
meaning and intent of the abovesaid act of parliament, 
does, and may more fully appear. Ad quod quidem statu- 
tum pars proponens se refert, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 

IV. Item. This proponent doth farther alledge, that 

Bb2 



37& LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

the abovesaicl book, entituled Athene Oxonienses, 
Vol. II. exhibited in this cause into the court, the 18 th of 
November 1692, by the party promovent in this cause, 
was, and is printed for M r . Thomas Bennet, bookseller in 
London, and published in London, and within the univer- 
sity of Oxford, by the said M r . Thomas Bennet, bookseller 
in London, and was received publickly by most or some 
of the booksellers of the university of Oxford aforesaid 
from the said M r . Bennet only. And, by virtue of the 
said publication only, the said book has been since the 
said publication, and is now at present, publicly to be 
sold, and permitted to be publicly sold in the said book- 
sellers' shops, and from them the said booksellers, to be 
dispersed amongst the scholars and students of the said 
university, without the consent or order of M r . Anthony 
Wood above-mentioned. Et ponit ut supra. 

V. Item. That before the printing and publication in 
print of the aforesaid book,entituled Athene Oxonienses, 
Vol. II. exhibited into this court by the party promovent 
in this cause, the aforesaid M r . Thomas Bennet of London, 
bookseller, had the original papers of the author in writ- 
ing in his custody, or in the custody of some others by 
his order, by the space of two years immediately before 
the printing of the aforesaid book, entituled Athene Ox- 
onienses, Vol. II. and exhibited as aforesaid (ponit tamen 
pars proponens de quolibet alio temporis spatio } ) &c. Et 
ponit ut supra. 

VI. Item. That the aforesaid M r Thomas Bennet, or 
some others, by his order and consent, during the time in 
the precedent article deduced, altered the abovesaid ori- 
ginal papers of the pretended author, by blotting out 
several passages and lines in the said original papers, by 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 873 

inserting many new characters of person s, many pages 
and lines different from the original papers, and that 
these alterations are printed without the consent or 
knowledge of M r Anthony Wood aforesaid. Et ponit ut 
supra. 

VII. Item. That James Harrington of the Inner Temple 
of London, esq. inserted the Introduction to the book en- 
tituled, Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited as afore- 
said, and also had the original papers of the pretended 
author of the aforesaid book in his custody, and altered 
the aforesaid original papers, by inserting many charac- 
ters, pages, lines and sentences ; and that the said altera- 
tions were and are printed in the aforesaid book, entituled 
Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited as aforesaid, with- 
out the knowledge and consent of M r . Anthony Wood 
above-mentioned. Et ponit ut supra. 

VIII. Item. That M r . Fraser above-mentioned had the 
original papers of the pretended author of the book, enti- 
tuled, Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited as afore- 
said, in his custody and keeping, and altered the aforesaid 
original papers, inserting many new characters, pages, 
lines and sentences; and that the said alterations were 
and are printed in the aforesaid book, entituled Athene 
Oxonienses, Vol. II. without the knowledge and consent 
of M r . Anthony Wood above-mention^. Et ponit ut supra. 

IX. Item. That the most reverend father in God now 
m lord archbishop of Canterbury had the original papers, 
or some of the original papers, of the pretended author of 
the book, entituled Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhi- 

m Archbishop Tillotson. 



374 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

bited as aforesaid, in his custody and keeping, and altered 
the aforesaid original papers, inserting many pages, lines, 
or sentences ; and that the said alterations were and are 
printed in the aforesaid book, entituled Athene Oxoni- 
enses, Vol. II. without the knowledge or consent of M r . 
"Wood aforesaid. Et ponit ut supra. 

X. Item. That the right honourable Henry earl of Cla- 
rendon, the party promovent in this cause, had the ori- 
ginal papers, or some of the original papers, of the 
pretended author of the book, entituled Athene Oxoni- 
enses, Vol. II. exhibited as aforesaid, in his custody and 
keeping, and altered the aforesaid original papers, by 
inserting and razing out many lines, sentences, and 
words relating to the character or characters of Edward 
late earl of Clarendon, without the knowledge or consent 
of M r . Wood. Et ponit ut supra. 

XI. Item. That the clauses and sentences mentioned in 
the third and fourth articles of the articles exhibited in 
this cause, {ad quos quidem articulos pars se refert, &c.) 
and pretending to be reflecting and libellous upon Edward 
late earl of Clarendon, were and are inserted by some one 
of the persons above mentioned, or by the printer or 
printers of the said book, without the knowledge and 
consent of the said M r . Anthony Wood. Et ponit ut 
supra. 

XII. Item. That during the time of printing the said 
book, entituled Athene Oxonienses, Vol. II. exhibited 
as aforesaid, the author of the aforesaid book was absent 
and distant several miles from the printing-press all the 
time the said book was printing, Prout ex clausula circa 
principium dicti libri in eoccusatione erratorum typographi- 



XO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 3?5 

corum addacta plenius liquet et apparet. Ad quern librum 
et ad clausulas praedictas pars proponens se refert et pro 
hie led. et insert, habet et haberi petit quatenus, &c. Et 
ponit ut supra. 

XIII. Item. This proponent doth farther alledge, that 
between the time of the restauration of king Charles II. 
and the year of onr Lord 1667, (the time deduced and ob- 
jected in the 8th article of certain articles exhibited in 
this cause) there were other lord chancellors, besides the 
right honourable Edward earl of Clarendon, deceased; 
and particularly, the author or authors of the book, en- 
tituled Athene Oxoxiexses, Vol. II. exhibited as afore- 
said, were of that opinion, as appears by column 228 of 
the Athene Oxoxiexses, Vol. II. and page 804 of the 
Fasti Oxoxiexses annexed to the said book, and exhi- 
bited as aforesaid ; Ad quam quidem columnam et paginam 
dictorum Hbrorum pa?°s proponens se refert, et pro hie lect. 
habet et haberi petit quatenus, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 

XIV. Item. That the pretended libellous words ob- 
jected in the 4th article of certain articles exhibited in 
this cause, did, and do refer to Lisle, chancellor or com- 
missioner of the great seal, and not to the lord chancellor 
Hyde, as is falsly suggested in the aforesaid articles, 
Prout ex verbis antecedentibus dictam clausulam in dicto 
articulo objectam in columna libri exhibiti 269, facta colla- 
tione cum sententiis ad dictum Lisle referentibus in columna 
228 dicti libri, intitulati Athex^e Oxoxiexses, Vol. II. 
plenius liquet et apparet, ad quae quidem omnia pars pro- 
ponens se refert et pro hie lect. habet quatenus, &c. Et 
ponit, &c. 

XV. Item. That the copies in print of a certain Epistle 



376 



LIFE OF WOOD. 



[append. 



or Preface composed in writing, and pretended to be 
printed by M r . Wood the defendant, with his pretended 
picture n and coat of arms, were delivered with directions 
to be inserted before the preface only of the first volume 
of Athene et Easti Oxonienses, Prout ex dicta epistola 
ex parte partis promoventis in hac curia exhihita plenius 
liquet, &c. ad quam epistolam pars se refert et pro hie led. 
habet quatenus, &c. And this proponent doth farther 
alledge, that the first volume of °Athenje Oxonienses 



n This portrait of Anthony a 
Wood has been mentioned before 
at page 294. It was a head-piece 
to the preface which was prefixed 
to a few copies only of the first 
edition of the Athene. D ? . 
Tanner told Hearne that it was 
very little, or indeed nothing at 
all, like Wood, and that it was 
taken from the silly print of him 
in the Ashmolean museum, which 
was done when Anthony was 
young. " But, says Hearne, I 
have heard old Burghers the en- 
graver say, that he (Burghers) 
took this immediately from An- 
thony's face, and that Anthony 
came to him on purpose about it, 
sat down while it was doing, but 
behav'd himself all the time like 
one asleep. And this I have 
heard Burghers often say/' See 
Hearne's MS. Remarks and Col- 
lections, vol. cii. page 134. 

I was indebted for the follow- 
ing original notice of our 
author's work to the kind- 
ness of the late JosephHasle- 
wood, esq. 
Advertisement. Proposals for 
printing Athene Oxonienses, 



and Fasti Oxonienses, both 
written by the famous historio- 
grapher Anthony a Wood; the 
first contains an exact history of 
the lives of all writers of that 
university, &c. in all professions, 
with an account of their works, 
&c. The Fasti contains not only 
the names, but the lives of all 
those who have not been authors 
of any considerable book, but 
otherwise remarkable for their 
dignity, parts, &c. The whole 
in two volumes in English, and 
extends to the end of 1 690. Pro- 
posals and specimens are deli- 
vered gratis, and subscriptions 
taken, by the undertaker, Tho. 
Bennet at the Half-Moon in S t . 
Paul's Churchyard, and by most 
booksellers in London and the 
country. Those who take sub- 
scriptions are desired to return 
them to the undertaker by the 
16 th of March next at the far- 
thest, that advantage continuing 
no longer. 

London Gazette, January 

19-22: 1690. (i.e. 169^.) 

Athene Oxonienses, and 

Fasti Oxonienses, Vol. I. ex- 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 377 

was printed and published by the space of two years 
before the second vol. of Athene Oxonienses exhibited 
as aforesaid. Ponit tamen pars de quolibet alio temporis 
spatio minori, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 

XVI. That the said M r . Anthony Wood hath not had 
any lodging or diet, or any right to any lodging or diet, 
in any college or hall within the university of Oxford for 
these twenty years last, {ponit tamen pars de quolibet alio 
temporis spatio majori,) &c. neither has he had any name 
in any buttery-book of any college or hall for the time 
aforesaid (ponit tamen pars, &c.) neither hath he fre- 
quented any publick assemblies of the said university as 
a member thereof, or had any right to frequent the same, 
as a member thereof, for the time aforesaid; and that 
for the time aforesaid the said M r . Anthony Wood has 
been reputed and taken to have forsaken all title or 
interest as a member of the said university. Ponit tamen 
pars de alio temporis spatio majori, &c. Et ponit ut supra. 

XVII. Item quod praemissa omnia sunt vera, &c. 

The Sentence. 

In Dei nomine, Amen. Auditis, visis, intellectis, ac ple- 
narie et mature discussis per nos Georgium Gardiner 
L. L. doctorem, ac venerabilis et egregii viri Henrici 

tending to 1640. is now finished, subscribers are desired to send 
and will be ready to deliver to in their 2d. payment according to 
subscribers on Thursday the 18 th the proposals, and take up their 
instant : The second extending to books, to the undertaker Tho. 
this present year 1691. will be Bennet bookseller, at the Half- 
published in Michaelmas term Moon in S*. Paul's Church-yard, 
next; the work being near a sixth Gazette, June 4 — 8, 1691. 
part larger than designed; the 



378 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND 

Aldricb, S. T. P. et almae universitatis Oxoniensis can- 
cellarii assessorem sen deputation legitime constitutum; 
meritis circumstantiis cujusdam negotii reformation is 
morum quod coram nobis in jndicio inter bonoratissi- 
mum D. D. Henricnm, comitem de Clarendon, partem 
omcium nostrum promoventem ex una, et Antonium a 
Wood, universitatis praedictae in artibus magistrum, 
partem contra quam hujusmodi negotium promovetur 
ex altera, partibus aliquandiu vertebatur et adhuc ver- 
titur, adpendet indecisum rite et legitime procedendum, 
partibusque praedictis eorum procuratores legitimos co- 
ram nobis in judicio rite et legitime comparantes, par- 
teque dicti honor atissimi viri ac domini Henrici, comitis 
de Clarendon, pro parte sua sententiam ferri et pro- 
mulgari, parte vero dicti Antonii a Wood justitiam fieri 
pro parte sua instanter et respective postulandam et 
petendam, rimatoque primitus per nos toto et integro 
processu, ita dicto negotio facto, et diligenter recen- 
sito, servatisque per nos de jure in bac parte servandis, 
ad nostrae sententiae definitivae, sive nostri finalis de- 
creti in dicto negotio, prolationem sic diximus proce- 
dendam fore, et procedimus in bujusmodi qui sequitur 
modum, viz. Quia post acta deducta, allegata, exhibita, 
pariter ac probata, in bujusmodi negotio comperimus, 
et luculenter invenimus partem ante dictam honora- 
tissimi viri ac D. D. Henrici comitis de Clarendon de- 
ductam bujusmodi negotio datam, exbibitam, et penes 
registrarium hujus curiae remanentem, quorum quidem 
articulorum tenor sequitur, et est tabs, viz. In Dei no- 
mine, Amen. Nos Henricus Aldricb, S.T.P. vice-cancel- 
larius universitatis Oxoniensis legitime constitutus, tibi 
Antonio a Wood universitatis praedictae in artibus ma- 
gistro, omnia et singula subscripta et subsequentia, 
articulos, capitula sive interrogatoria morum et exces- 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 379 

suum tuorum reformationenr, praesertim libellum sive 
libellos famosos a te scriptos, compositos et pubbcatos, 
concernentes sive tangentes ex officio nostro ad promo- 
tionem bonoratissimi viri ac domini Henrici, comitis de 
Clarendon, damus, objicimus, ministramus et articula- 
mui'j &c. (quos quidem articulos pro bic lectis et insertis 
babemus et baberi volumus quatenus expedit) sufficien- 
ter et ad plenum, quoad interius pronunciato, fundasse 
ac probasse, nibilque effectuale ex parte ant per partem 
antedicti Antonii a Wood allegation ant probatnm fuisse 
aut esse qnod intentionem antedicti D. D. Henrici comi- 
tis de Clarendon ex bac parte ebderet, seu qnovis modo 
enervaret. Idcirco nos Georgius Gardiner jndex ante- 
dictus, Cbristi nomine primitus invocato, ac ipsnm 
Deum solnm ocnlis nostris praeponentes, de, ac cum 
concilio jurisperitorum, qnibnscnm in bac parte prae- 
dicta communicavixnus, praefatum Antoninm a Wood 
intra tempus et loca in boc negotio articnlatum Hbrum 
qnendam praetensum, cnjns titnlus praetensus sic in- 
eipit, Athene Oxonienses : An exact History of all the 
Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the 
most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the 
loth year of King Henry VII. Anno Domini 1500, to 
the end of the year 1690, representing the birth, fortune, 
&c. Et sic terminator, The second volume compleating 
the whole work. . Et inter alia in dicto libro contenta, 
libellos famosos in verba Angbcana sequentia, viz. Co- 
lumn. 221. After the restauration of King Charles II. 
'twas expected by all, that he (quendam Davidem Jen- 
kins unum e judicibus regiis in partibus Walliae Aus- 
trabbus virum meritissimum innuendo) should be made 
one of the judges in Westminster hall; and so he might 
have been, would he have given money to the then 
lord chancellor, (honoratissimum virum ac D. D. Ed- 



380 LIFE OF WOOD. 



APPEND. 



vardum Hyde militem, nuperum comitem de Claren- 
don, regnique Angliae D. cancellarium, nee non cancel- 
larinm hujus universitatis, patremqne naturalem et 
legitimum partis hoc negotium promoventis defuncti 
inuendo,) et column 269. After the restaur -ation of 
King Charles II. lie (inuendo quendam Johannem 
Glynn) was made his (domini regis inuendo) eldest 
serjeant at law, by the corrupt dealing of the then lord 
chancellor (praefatum honor atissimum virum ac D. D. 
Edvardum Hyde, militem, nuper comitem de Claren- 
don, regni Angliae dominum cancellarium, necnon can- 
cellarium hujus universitatis, patremque naturalem et 
legitimum, partis hoc negotium promoventis defunctum 
similiter innuendo) scripto composuisse et publicasse, 
unde praefati honoratissimi viri ac D. D. Edvardi Hyde, 
reliquis additionibus suis, ut praemittitur, colendissimi 
existimatio et fama laedi possit pronunciamus ; ideoque 
dictum Antonium a Wood, quo usque ob tantum mo- 
rum suorum excessum, recantationem (per nos aut 
alium judicem hujus curiae competentem approban- 
dam) subscripserit cautionem item sufficientem fide- 
jussoriam de pace conservanda quoad crimina objecta, 
honeste in posterum se gerendo interposuerit, ex hac 
dicta universitate Oxoniensi tanquam pacis perturba- 
torem banniendum, et privileges ejusdem universitatis 
excidendum fore decernimus, et etiam bannimus et 
exuimus, praemissaque instrumento publice affigendo 
denuncianda et publicanda declaramus (in criminis 
insuper tarn infesti detestationem, dicti libri copiam, 
copiam etiam, omisso nomine magistri Johannis Cook 
procuratoris) allegationis cujusdam intemperantis fa- 
mosa et scandalosa ex parte dicti Antonii a Wood data 
in hoc negotio, tertio die mensis Martii, anno Domini 
169f, nullatenus vero probata hora nona antemeridiana 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 381 

diei trigesimae primae mensis instantis Julii, viz. die 
Lunae proxime sequentis, in area Theatri Sheldoniani 
per hujus curiae mandatariorum unum flammis com- 
mittendam et comburendam fore decernimus., dictum- 
que Antonium a Wood in expensis legitimis ex parte 
dicti honorabilis viri ac D. D. Henrici comitis de Cla- 
rendon, in hoc negotio factis condemnandnm fore pro- 
nunciamus, decernimus et declaramus, prout condem- 
namus, quas visa prius billa, taxamns ad summam tri- 
ginta et quatnor librarumP per hanc nostram senten- 
tiam definitivam, sive hoc nostrum finale decretum; 
quam sive quod ferimus et promulgamus, ac etiam 
(cum in hujusmodi negotio appellatio non sit admit- 
tenda) executioni demandamus in his scriptis 
Lecta per nos 
29 Julii, 1693. Georgium Gardiner, Asses. 

p With this fine the two statues then^i Oxonienses, and when 
of king Charles the First and the sentence came to be pass'd, his 
earl of Danby, standing in the book was ordered to be burnt and 
niches on each side of the rustic- he himself to be fln'd 40 libs , w ch 
work gate, leading into the univer- sum poor Anton, was forc'd to 
sity Physick-garden, were erected. pay to y e vice-chancellor, who laid 
Hearne in his MS. Remarks and out y e money upon three statues 
Collections for the year 1705, has w ch are plac'd in the nitches of 
the following note on this affair, y e gate of y e Physic garden. After 
although it is clear, from the above this Mr. Wood told several per- 
authentic copy of the sentence, sons and particularly D r Hudson, 
that he was misinformed as to the that if he had liberty he could jus- 
fine : tify every particular y* he had writ 

" Anton, a Wood was prose- about y e earl of Clarendon from 

cuted by the earl of Clarendon in authentick papers, publish'd by 

y e vice-chancell rs . court, for wh* authority." MS. Collect, vol. vi. 

he had said of Edw. Hyde earl of page 1 . 
Clarendon, his father, in y e A- 



382 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

The following extract is given from the proctor's Black 
Book: 

Antonius a Wood hujus universitatis Oxon. A. M. eo 
quod honor atissimi viri ac D. D. Edwardi Hyde militis 
nuperi comitis de Clarendon regnique Angliae domini 
cancellarij nee non cancellarij hujus universitatis Oxon. 
defuncti famosis quibusdam libellis in libro cui titulus 
Athene Oxonienses &c. Volume the second, publice 
editis existimationem et famam adhuc superstitem 
laedere tentasse legitimis probationibus convictus fuerit 
ex decreto judicis curiae cancellariatus Oxon. quousque 
ob tantos morum suorum excessus recantationi per 
judicem dictae curiae adprobandae subscripserit et 
cautionem fide jussoriam de pace conservanda et quoad 
crimina objecta in posterum honeste se gerendo inter- 
posuerit ex hac universitate Oxon. tanquam pacis per- 
turb ator bannitus et privilegiis ejusdem universitatis 
exutus erat, et instrumento publice affixo Quousque &c. 
(ut prsemittitur) bannitus et exutus declarabatur et 
denuntiabatur vicesimo nono die mensis Julij A. D. 
1693 necnon in criminis tarn infesti detestationem libri 
praedicti copia ex decreto judicis praedicti in area 
Theatri Sheldoniani ultimo die mensis praedicti per 
dictae curiae mandatariorum unum flammis combure- 
batur. 

B. Altham, Proc. sen 1 '. 

B. Vesy, Proc.jun r . 

In Tanner's copy of the Athene is the following paper 
in the bishop's own hand-writing, which seems proper for 
insertion under this head. Hearne in his MS. Remarks 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 383 

and Collections has preserved a transcript of the original 
rough draught of this instrument, which was among 
Anthony a Wood's papers in the possession of M r . Ward 
of Warwick. " This form of submission was occasioned/' 
says Hearne, " by M r . Wood's prosecution." q 



The Recantation of Mr. Wood, which he made before 
he was recalled from his banishment* 

Whereas I Anthony a Wood master of arts have from 
my youth laboured in good letters for the honour and 
glory of the most famous university of Oxford without 
any prospect of reward or preferment, I am sorry and 
much griev'd at heart, that I have fallen into the hands 
of most barbarous and rude people of our own body, 
who have endeavoured to ruin me and my name, by 
making the Second volume of Athene and Fasti Oxon. 

<i MS. Remarks, vol. cxxvii. linquent has been pardoned or 

page 145. restored to his rank, for the proc- 

r On what authority bishop tor or vice-chancello?', or such 
Tanner says, that Wood was re- officer of the university as may 
called from his banishment I have been the complainant, to 
know not. He certainly con- signify that the reparation de- 
ceived himself restored to his manded has been duly made by 
rank and privileges in the univer- the offending party, and this is 
sity, yet lord Clarendon (as we generally signified by placing a 
have seen at page 316.) seems mark of acknowledgment, such 
not altogether to have assented to as satisfecit, or some word of like 
Wood's opinion on this point, import, on the page where the sen- 
and some discussion would pro- tence had been recorded. But in 
bably have arisen on the subject the case of Anthony a Wood no 
had our author lived to have pro- such acknowledgment appears to 
secuted his claim. have been made by either of the 

It is usual when a name has two proctors who signed the in- 
been once entered in the Black strument of degradation. 
Book of the proctor, and the de- 



384 LIFE OF WOOD. 



APPEND. 



a libell (which by the sentence of the assessor of the 
vice-chancellor's courts a civil law court, hath been burnt) 
and afterwards to banish him from the said universitie 
to the great abhorrence of the generality thereof, pur- 
posely to please the magisterial s humour of a certain 
lord, for 3 or 4 lines mentioned in the said second 
volume p. 221 and 269 concerning a person there men- 
tioned without any name or title, who hath been ban- 
ished from England Scotland and Ireland for refusing 
to answer to divers articles of treason and misdemean- 
ors, for about 30 years and hath been dead 20. t I 
say I am heartily sorry for these things, witness my 
hand. 

Whereas in the sentence passed against M r Wood, it is 
said, that he shall continue banished till such time that 
he shall subscribe such a publick recantation as the 
judge of that court shall approve of, and which, upon 
his enquiry, he cannot yet learne what it is ; he himself 
hath therefore, in the meane time drawn up a forme 
which is this. 

The two passages for which the second volume was burnt 
are these. The first is in David Jenkins, a most loyal 
judge and the greatest sufferer for the king's cause of 
any person of his profession in his time running thus : 
■ — After the restoration of K. Charles II. it was expected 
by all that he (Jenkyns) should be made one of the judges 
in Westminster hall, and so might he have been } would he 
have given mony to the then lord chancellor. 



s The supercilious and tyranni- ' About 28 years and dead about 

cal humour, 8zc. Hearne's Trail- 18. Hearne's Transcript, 
script from Wood's original MS. 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 

The other passage is in the life and character of S r John 
Glynne ; a prime instrument in bringing the immortall 
Strafford to the block, and enemy to archbishop Laud, 
an enjoyer of the places of certain royalists, ejected for 
their loyaltie, made recorder of London and serjeant at 
law by the long or rebellious parliament (and so conse- 
quently, being several times appointed an itinerant 
justice, fell many a noble and generous heart by his 
dismal sentence,) made lord chief justice of the King's 
bench by Oliver, and one of the other house, that is, 
the house of lords ; made and created by that person. 
I say that passage excepted against in the life of the 
said S r e John Glynn runs thus : — After the restauration 
of K. Ch. II. he (Glynne) was made his eldest serjeant at 
law by the corrupt dealing of the then lord chancellor : — 
Whereas he should rather have had a halter, or at least 
have been excepted from the act of oblivion. u 



It is a singular circumstance, and one I do not remem- 
ber to have seen publickly remarked, that Wood suffered 
for a character of lord Clarendon of which, in fact, he was 
not the author. Hearne, of whose veracity there can 
exist no doubt, gives a curious history of this character, 
which it will not be impertinent to introduce : 

" Anth. a Wood had the reflection that he passeth upon 
my lord Clarendon in the life of judge Jenkins (for which 
expression and some others Mr. Wood was expelled the 
university) from M r . John Aubrey, who had it from judge 
Jenkins himself. This M 1 Wood owned in company after- 

u Can any man think the con- served the halter, or at least to 

trary, hut that he gave money for be excepted from the oblivion, 

his place, when he rather had de- Hearae's Transcript. 

I. c c 



386 LIFE OF WOOD. [APPEND. 

wards to M r Lliuyd of the Museum, who also received 
the like information from M r . Aubrey himself. This I 
have been told by an intimate acquaintance, (M r Richard 
Dyer, fellow of Oriel college) who is a fellow of a college, 
of M r . Lhuyd's, who kept it secret as long as M p . Lhuyd 
was living. The said M r . Aubrey gave Anthony a Wood 
abundance of other informations ; and Anthony used to 
say of him, when he was at the same time in company ; 
Look, yonder goes such a one, who can tell such and such 
stories, and Fie warrant M r . Aubrey will break his neck 
down stairs rather than miss him." MS. Remarks and 
Collections for the year 1710, vol. xxvi. page 39. This 
account of Hearne's is in a great measure corroborated 
by the following short account of Jenkins now printed 
from a manuscript in Aubrey's handwriting, preserved in 
the Ashmolean museum. 

" Judge Jenkins, prisoner .... in y e Tower of London, 

Windsor, &c yeares for his loyaltie. He would have 

taken it kindly to have been made one of y -' judges in 
Westminster hall; but would give no money for it. He 
was of great courage ; rode in ye lord Gorand's army in 
Pembrokeshire, in the forlorne hope, w th his long rapier 
drawne, holding it on-end. Obiit December 3. A . D ni . 
1663. Sepult. at Cowbridge church (in the South aisle) 
in Glamorganshire. No remembrance yet (1682) sett up 
for him." 

In another volume of Hearne's Remarks* we have a 
further testimony as to the general belief in the accusa- 
tion against the lord chancellor : " I have heard it said 
by a gentleman that lived in those times, that the earl of 
Clarendon did take bribes upon the restauration, and that 
a great number of loyal cavaliers suffered upon his ac- 

* Vol. X. p. 8. 



NO. VII.] LIFE OF WOOD. 387 

count, and were not rewarded because not able to fee 
him : and that M r Wood was honest and just in that part 
of his history. This I took the more notice of, because 
he spoke with a great deal of vehemence, and seemed to 
be positive in the matter." 



The following answer of M r . Dodwell to Wood's letter printed 
at p. 312 has been communicated to the editor as this sheet 
was about to be worked off, by his friend the Rev. H. O. Coxe 
of the Bodleian, from Ballard's papers in that library. 

MS. Ballard. XXXIV. fol. 4. 
Sir, 

I have shewn your letter to my L d Clarendon, and 
left it in his hands, that he might consider it at leisure, 
upon his promise that he would keep it to himself. What 
he desires farther is that you would own in open court, 
and get it registred, that you are sorry for having been 
made an instrument by the misinformation of others for 
aspersing his ffathers memory. His L d ships desires herein 
are so very just and becoming him that I do not see how 
you can as a good Christian refuse complyance. You can 
pretend no informations in this whole matter but what 
may very probably fayl you. And if you should engage 
yourself by this precedent to make the like amends for all 
like cases, without any compulsion, onely on being con- 
victed of your mistakes, as it would be very much for the 
advantage of your soul, so it will add not detract from 
the credit of your other collections. Your ingenuity will 
very much recommend your better informations. If I 
may therefore be so bold as to advise you, I should think 
it your best way to perform what is desired, and for other 
things to cast yourself upon his L d ships generosity. I 

cc2 



388 LIFE OF WOOD. 

give this as my own advise, not by any suggestion from 

his L d ship. His L d ship has perhaps more proof then you 

are aware of. But I would rather have you do what you 

think fit as a good man and as a Christian, then upon any 

account of fear. I am 

Your aff. fr. and humble servant, 

Jan. 18 Henry Dodwell. 

169f 

(Endorsed,) ffor my honoured ffriend M r . 
Anthony Wood. 

(And in Wood's hand,) 
M r DodwelPs letter to me 
18 Jan. 1692. 



END OF THE LIFE OF WOOD, 



INDEX. 



A BEND AN A, Isaac, 294. 
-^ Abendon, Henry, 68, 
Abercromby, Jecamiah, 24. 
Abergavenny, lady, 249. 
Abingdon, earl of, see Bertie. 
Acourt, John, 168. 
Act, very splendid, 164. 
Adams, alderman, 73. 
Adams, Edward, a barber, near 

hanging, 40. 
Adams, locksmith, 54. 
Adams, John, 270. 
Adams, Rich., fellow of Lincoln,27o. 
Adams, Richard, made principal of 

Magdalen hall, 301, 302. 
Adams, Samuel, 222. 
Ailiff, William, 17. 
Ail worth, Henry, 265. 
Alban hall, in the parish of St. John 

Baptist, 176. 
Alban' s, St., abbey, 16. 
Alder, Francis, 209. 
Aldrich, Henry, preaches against 

" Julian the Apostate," 242, 257, 

300, 307, 364. 
Aid worth, Richard, 258. 
Alehouses in Oxon., 203. 
Allam, Andrew, 222, 332. 
Allam, Thomas, 178. 
Allen, sir Richard, 158. 
Allestree, James, 237, 246. 
Allestree, Rich., 112. 115, 165, 193. 
Allix, Peter, 190. 
All Souls coll., evidences in good 

order, 145. 
All Souls coll. plate given to king 

Charles I., 14. 
Alsop, Nath., 165, 167. 
Altham, Roger, 230, 293, 299. his 

proctor's speech, 303. 
Ambler, Brian, 45, 46. 
Ambler, John, 47. 
Anabaptists meet, 94. 



Anderton, James, 258. 

Anne, princess, 255, 260. 

Annesley, Arthur, earl of Anglesea, 
130. 

Anstis, John, 4. 

Antwistle, Edmund, 258. 

Apleby, Thomas, 214. 

Archer, Benjamin, 256. 

Ashburnham, John, 73. 

Ashmole, Elias, 153. comes to Oxon. 
164. Wood dines with him, 171. 
sends A. W. his Hist, of the Gar- 
ter, 182. his letter to A. W. 352. 

Ashmole's museum opened, 255. 
the donor thanked, 255. 

Ashurst or Ashhurst family, account 
of, 157. 

Ashurst, Henry, 157. created a ba- 
ronet, 158. the friend of Baxter 
and Boyle, 158. 

Ashurst, Tho. Henry, 158. 

Ashurst, Will., 157. 

Ashhurst, sir Wm. Henry, builds 
Waterstock, 159. 

Athenae Oxon. burnt, 297. 

Atkinson, William, 267. 

Aubrey, John, account of, 152. his 
works, 153, 295, 385, 386. 

Aubrey, sir John, 152. 

Austin's disputations, 200. 

Ayliff, William, 139. 
B. 

Badger, James, 302, 316. 

Baggs's coffee house, 48. 

Bagnall, lieut., 28. 

Bagshaw, Edw., 84. 

Bagshaw, Francis, 267, 269, 272. 

Bagshaw, John, 267. 

Baker, Mrs., 357. 

Baker, Thomas, All Souls, 258. 

Baldwin, Timothy, 64. 

Bailies, Thomas, 199. 

Ball, John, 98. 



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INDEX. 



Ball, William, yeoman bedel, brings 
an action against New college for 
a transcript of their records, 146. 

Ballard or Bullard, John, 242, 257, 
258. 

Balliol coll. plate given to Charles I. 
14, 16. 

Ballow, Dr., of St. John's, 203. 

Baltsar, Thomas, eminent violinist, 
78, 80, 138. 

Bandinel, Bulkeley, 90. 

Barber, George, of Oriel, 197, 201, 
214. 

Bardshaw, Henry, 17. 

Bardshaw, Judith, 17. 

Barell, John, 223. 

Barker, Richard, 297. 

Barksdale, a chorister, 309. 

Barlow, Thomas, keeper of Bodley's 
library, 60, 96, 98, 109, 119, 138, 
139, 145. recommends A. W. to 
Dugdale, 147, 150, 151. his li- 
brary, 167. gives A. W. a glass, 
173, 182. 

Barncote, Thomas, 75. 

Barnesby, Jesuit, 208. 

Barry, Vincent, 29. 

Barton, John, 256. 

Baskervile family, 84. 

Baskervile, Hannibal, 84. 

Baskervile, sir Thomas, 85. 

Bateman, John, 297. 

Bathurst, Mrs. Mary, 141. no good 
character of, 189. 

Bathurst, Ralph, 50. obtains access 
to the archives for A. W. 107, 
135. marries Mary Palmer, 141. 
no good account of him, 168. 
speaks slightingly to Wood, 182. 
becomes vice-chancellor, 188,235, 
2 57> 258* contributes largely to- 
wards building Trin. coll. chapel, 

3°3> 344- 

Baxter, Richard, 157. 

Bayly, Richard, president of St. 
John's, silver coined with his re- 
bus, 15, 146. 

Bayly, Tho., 198, 304. 

Baynard, Eliz., 141. 

Baynard, Geo., 14T. 

Baynard, Tho., 141. 

Bayworth, old house at, 84. 

Beale, John, 290. 

Beard, Tho. 264. 

Beaw, Will., bp. of Llandaff, 292. 

Beauforest, Richard, 94. 



Beaulies, Betty, 196. 

Bedlow, William, 220. 

Bee, Matthew, 53. 

Beeston, Elizabeth, 17. 

Beeston, Henry, 17, 257, 258. 

Beggar's rest at Bayworth, 86. 

Bells at Merton, 68. 

Benbrigg, John, 258. 

Benlowes, Edward, 67. 

Bennet, Tho., bookseller, 295, 372. 

Bennett, Tho., 190, 235, 280, 284, 

288. 
Bentlev, Rich., stationer of London, 

64.' 
Bernard, Edw., 154, 257, 258. 
Bertie, Catherine, dau. of the earl 

of Lindsey, marries Mr. Dormer, 

160. 
Bertie, Henry, 264. 
Bertie, James, earl of Abingdon, 

222, 248, 268, 273, 306. 
Bertie, Montague, lord Norreys, 268. 
Bertie, Philip, 270. 
Beverley church, Yorkshire, 140. 
Bible, faulty, printed at Oxford, 214. 
Bidgood, John, t68. 
Bingham, Joseph, 319. 
Birch, John, his monument defaced, 

304. 

Birch, Peter, 264. 

Bishops, pamphlet against, 219. 

Bisse, James, 319, 320, 321, 335. 

Blagge, col. Tho., his bravery, 20. 
wounded, 21. account of, 23. 

Blanford, Walter, warden of Wad- 
ham, 112. 

Blanks, James, 43, 44. 

Blanks, John, 43, 45, 46. 

Blenerhassett, Anne, 44. 

Blenheim built, 48. 

Blomesbury, near London, 152. 

Blount, sir Henry, 48. 

Blount, Tho., sends A. W. his Law 
Dictionary, 175. animadverts on 
sir Richard Baker's Chron., 179. 
called in, 180. 

Bloxam, John Rouse, D. D. assists 
in this edition of Wood, 100. 

Bobart, Jacob, 164. 

Bodleian Library, king James II. 
entertained there, 284, 288. 

Bois, Henry, recants, 273. 

Bolter, Francis, 55. 

Bond, Dennis, 82. 

Bond, Elizabeth, 100. 

Bonfires made as tokens of joy, 269. 



I N D E X, 



39* 



Books, a few rare ones in Mr. Shel- 
don's library specified, 263. a 
very rare one relating to Thame 
school, 18. 

Booth, sir George, 95. 

Bos well, John, 58. 

Bouchier, Richard, 17. 

Bourchier, Dr. Tho., 295, 296. loses 
his only son, 310, 313. 

Bowell, John, 136, 223. 

Bowles, Henry, terrae films 1682,245. 

Bowman, Francis, 66. 

Boyle, Robert, 135. 

Boys, Anthony, 226. 

Boys, Mallina, 226. 

Boyse, Nathan,, 192, 256. 

Bradley, Sari], taken ill at the ordi- 
nation, in. 

Bradshaw, Cassandra, 157. 

Bradshaw, cornet, 28. 

Bradshaw, John, 157. 

Branker, Tho., 135. 

Brasenose coll. plate given to Chas. 
L, 14, 16. 

Brawne, Hugh, 267. 

Brawne, J., 267. 

Brent, sir Nath., warden of Merton, 
38, 39, 45, 122, 125. 

Brent, Roger, 113. protests against 
sir Tho. Clayton's election, 114, 

"5- 

Bricknell, James, 45, 63. 

Bricknell, Samuel, 45. 

Bridgeman, Charles, 9T. 

Bridgeman, sir Orlando, 91. 

Britton, John, 153. 

Brome, Henry, 70. 

Brooke, John, 81. 

Brookes, Tho., 255. 

Brooks, cornet, 28. 

Brooks, James, bp. of Gloucester, 

253> 2 54- 

Brooks, Joseph, Ch. Ch., 238, 
Brooks, Mary, 17. 
Broughton, Brian, 266. 
Browne, sir Richard, 109. 
Browne, Will., fellow of Magd., 53, 

179. 
Browne, Will., of Trinity coll., some 

account of, 27. 
Browning, George, 215. 
Bruen, Samuel, 61. brings an action 

for slander, 62. 
Bruges, Henry, 18. 
Bryan, Dr., 292. 
Buckeley. lord, 230- 



Buckhouse, Will., 99. 
Buckhurst, Chas., lord, 137, 
Buckingham, duke of, interferes in 

a city election 1681., 223. 
Buckston, John, 271. 
Bull, William, account of, 59, 60, 

64, 75> 77> 9°- 
Bull, William, a good bedel, 221. 
Bullard, see Ballard. 
Bunce, capt., his bravery, 24. 
Burgh, capt., 25. 
Burghers, Michael, 294. 
Burnet, Gilbert, 214. his Hist, of the 

Reformation chastised by A. W, 

and correspondence thereon, 215. 
Burnham, Thomas, 10. 
Burt, Eliz., 17. 
Burt, Maximil. Pettie, 17. 
Burt, William, account of, and of 

his family, 17, 18. favours the 

parliament forces, 30, 51. 
Burton, William, his description of 

Leicestershire, 57. 
Bury, Arthur, 294, 308. 
Busby, Richard, his divinity lecture, 

240, 241. letter from, 243. 
Butler, James, duke of Ormond, 

165, 166, 305, 338. 
Button, Ralph, 9, 61. aids A. W. in 

his researches, 101. 
Buys, Anth., 264. 
Byrd, Will., stonemason, discovers 

the art of staining marble, 77. 
Bysshe, sir Edward, 161. 

C. 
C. J., 133. 
Campbell, hon. Archibald, abuses 

the public orator for a sermon, 

300. 
Campion, Abraham, 184. 
Campion, sir Will., 24, 31. 
Canne, lieut., 28. 
Cardonel, Peter, 235. 
Cardonel, William, his death, 235, 

236. 
Carfax church, great confusion at, 

95- 
Carpenter, John, bp. of Worcester, 

*5- 
Carriage of goods, 162. 
Carslegh, Anthony, elected bedel, 

221. 
Carter, Joseph, 186. 
Casaubon, Meric, his Narration of 

Dee and the Spirits frightens A. 

W., 103. 



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INDEX. 



Castle, George, 64. 

Caswell, John, 257, 258. 

Catherine, queen to Chas. II., 166. 

Cave, John, 19, 93. 

Cave, Prudence, 158. 

Cave, William, Magd., 238. 

Cave, sir Wm., 158. 

Caulfield, William viscount, 8. 

Chamberlain, Wm., pledges his plate 
to the University, 127. 

Chancellor's right to the nomination 
of Magd. hall established by a 
jury, 305. 

Charles I. — The king in Oxford with 
his queen, 6. entertained at St. 
John's coll., 7. repairs thither 
with his army (1642), n. endea- 
vours made to procure his escape, 

73> 74- 

Charles II., when prince, in Oxford, 
1 1 . accustomed to have 24 violins 
playing at his meals, 70. takes up 
his residence in Oxon, 144. said 
to have received extreme unction 
on his deathbed, 177. 

Charlett, Arthur, 258, 311. with 
Wood shortly before his death, 
317. his letter thereon, 318, 335. 

Chaundler, Rich., 141. 

Chelsea hospital, first stone of, laid 
by Charles II., 239. 

Chemistry, a class for. 256. 

Chetwode family, 93. 

Chichester, sir Arth., 85. 

Chilmead, a tenant of Mert. coll., 1 24. 

Christ Church plate given to Chas. 
I., 14. salver still there, 16. king 
James II. visits the college, 280. 

Christmas customs among the un- 
dergraduates, 34. 

Churchill, lord, 219. 

Cissa, king, 133. 

Clarendon, earl of, see Hyde. 

Clark, see Clerlce. 

Clarke, Geo., All Souls, 235, 280. 

Clarke, John, 211. 

Clayton, Thomas, 109. made war- 
den of Merton, and is knighted, 
no, in. inaugurated, 113. the 
obstacles thrown in the way of 
his admission, 116. his character, 
118, 1 19. his expenditure com- 
plained of, 125. suspects A. W. 
of popery, 207. his death, 297. 

Cleaver, William, bp. of Chester, 88. 

Clerk, Samuel, 115. 



Clerke, Dr. Henry, his will, 247. 

Clerke, or Clark, Mrs., married to 
sir R. Shuttleworth, 247. 

Clerke, — fellow of Lincoln, 142. 

Clifford, Rosamond, 203, 316. 

Clopton, Anthony, 4. 

Clotterbuck, John, 248, 265. 

Coaches from Oxford to London, 
162,163. robbed at Wheatley, 299. 

Cock, John, 65. 

Cockerill, a bookseller, 220. 

Codrington, Christ., 309. 

Coffee house established at Oxford, 
48. some account of coffee and 
coffee houses, 48, 50, 60. 

Coghill, sir Thos., 130. 

Cole, Benj., 338. 

Cole, Thos., 57. 

Colepepper, John lord, master of 
the rolls, lives in A. Wood's fa- 
ther's house, n. 

Collectors in Lent forbidden to en- 
tertain the bachelors, 213. 

Colledge, Edith, 234. 

Colledge, Edmund, 233. 

Colledge, Stephen, 233. his execu- 
tion and letters, 234. 

Collier, William, no. 

Collins, Thos., 190. 

Comet blazing, 196. 

Commissioners appointed during the 
chancellor's absence, 235. 

Common prayer and sacraments put 
down by the saints, 45. 

Conant, John, of Merton, 269, 297. 

Conant, John, rector of Exeter, 307. 
careful of giving A. W. leave to 
peruse the archives, 104. 

Conant, Samuel, elected rector of 
Exeter, 307. 

Confucius transl. by the Jesuits, 286. 

Congreve, Will., has 100L from the 
king, 308. 

Conny, Robert, 241. 

Conquest, Charles, 297. 

Conyers, Tristram, 79. 

Conyers, Will., physician, account 
of, 79. 

Cook, John, under secretary of state, 
166. 

Cook, Tho., 140, 159. 

Cooke, John, a member of the Ash- 
molean Society, 258. 

Cooke, John, of St. John's, Wood's 
proctor, 291, 380. 

Cooke, William, 18. 



INDEX. 



393 



Cope, sir John, 211, 227. 

Cooper, Rob., 226. 

Cooper, Sara., 349. 

Copley, Edward, 34. 

Corbet, Edward, his funeral, 76, 

Corderoy, serjeant, 133. 

Corn, high price of, occasions cla- 
mour, 293. 

Corpus Christi college, beautiful 
plate there, 15. 

Cotes, John, 100. 

Cotterel, Anne, 160. 

Cotterell, sir Chas., no. 

Cotton, sir John, 147. is kind to 
A. W., 148. 

a Court, John, 168. 

Coward, Christopher, 91. 

Coward, Dr. William, 297. 

Cowcher, Rob., 258. 

Cox, Richard, mayor of Oxford, 224. 

Cox, William, of Bras., 181. 

Coxe, Hen. Octavius, 387. 

Coxeter, Geo., 357. 

Cradock, Tho., 195. elected public 
orator, 198. dies, 213. 

Crafford, colonel Lawrence, 20,22,23. 

Crafford, Hugh, 22. 

Crawford, Joan, 336. 

Creech, Tho., 189, 258, 311. 

Cressey, Hugh, 166. sends Ra. Shel- 
don to A. W., 178. 

Crew, Arthur, 138. 

Crew, Nath., afterward lord Crew, 
petitions against the visitors, 84. 
musical, but without good ear, 91, 

135- 

Cripps, Robert, 112, 113. 

Croft, Francis, chapl. of Merton, 40. 

Croke, Charity, 83. 

Croke, Eleanor, 83. 

Croke, George, 65, 72. 

Croke, sir George, 157, 159. 

Croke, Gracious, 83. 

Croke, Dr. Henry, 157. 

Croke, sir John, 82. 

Croke, Rich., 200, 201. 

Croke, sir Richard, dies, 256. 

Croke, Unton, account of, 82. 

Crompton, lieut., 28. 

Cromwell, Oliver, dies, 82. fond of 

music, 102. 
Cromwell, Richard, 82. 
Cross, John, 135. founds the Fell 

speech, 306. 
Cross, Matth., 34. 
Crostley, John, 221. 



Crouch, N., 258. 

Croune, William, 148, 149. 

Crymes, Ames, 222. 

Cunningham, J., 258. 

Curteyne, John, 166. 

Curteys, a lutinist, 66. 
D. 

Dacre, Elizabeth, 25. 

Dacre, Francis lord, 25. 

Daillon, a French minister, 301. 

Dalby, Mrs., killed, 210. 

Dalby, preaches at Oxford feast, 246. 

Dale, Robert, 4. 

Danvers, Elizabeth, 158. 

Darby or Derby, Michael, bell- 
founder, 69, 222. 

Dartmouth, lord; see Legge, Geo. 

Davenant, Charles, 304. 

Davenport, Christopher, 166. 

Davies, John, of Kidwelly, 171. 

Davies, Mr., of Sandford, 290, 291. 

Davis, Abraham, 134. 

Davys, John, 8. 

Dawson, Charles, 90. 

Dawson, Edward, 4. 

Deane, Henry, of New coll., 145. 

de Cardonel; see Cardonel. 

Dee, John, 153. 

Deerham of Norfolk, 67. 

Delafield, Tho., 157. 

Delaune, Will., 189. 

Delegates of the press, 167, 174. 

Dennis, John, an ancient bookseller, 
263. 

Denton, Henry, 233. 

Derby, Mich. ; see Darby. 

Derham, William, 50. 

Derham, of Magd. hall, 287. 

Des Maistres, Samuel, 257, 258. 

Devereux, Robert, earl of Essex, the 
parliament's general, 9. threatens 
Oxford, 16. 

Dewey, William, 41. 

Dewy, Francis, 129. 

Dickenson, Edmund, 38, 113, 125. 

Digby, Kenelm, 77, 90. 

Dingley, William, 246. 

Dinham, lady Penelope, 155. 

Ditch on the east side of New coll., 

175,176. 

Divinity school altered, 225. 

Dodsworth, Roger, A. W.'s respect 
for his memory, 192. his collec- 
tions, 329. 

Dodwell, Henry, letter from Wood 
to, 312. Dodwell's reply, 387. 



394 



INDEX. 



Dodwell, Philip, his case, 197, 201, 

202. 
Dolben, John, 112, 115, 128, 288. 
Dorchester, leiger book of, 94. 
Dormer, Robert, 160. 
Dorset, earl of; see Sackville, Edw. 
Doyly, sir John, 211. 
Draco volans, 156. 
Draper, Elisabeth, 158. 
Drope family and pedigree, 100. 
Drope, Bridget, marries Richard 

Hey cock, 100. 
Drope, Edward, 100. 
Drope, Elizabeth, 100. 
Drope, Francis, 100. 
Drope, John, master of Dorchester 

school, 71, TOO. 
Drope, Mary, 99, 100, 357. 
Drope, Sarah, marries John Cotes, 

TOO. 

Drope, Tho., 99, 100. 

Drope, William, 100. 

Dry den, John, cudgelled, 220. 

Dryer, Francis, 160. 

Dufore, Charles, 9. 

Dufore, Dennis, 9, 

Dugdale, sir Wm., 68, 147, 164. 
commands false arms to be re- 
moved from a monument, 232, 
250. 

Dunches of Wittenham, 196. 

Durston, John, 202. 

Dyer, Richard, 386. 

E. 

Ecc, J., 309. 

Eccleston, Tho., 174. 

Echard, John, 180. 

Eddisbury, John, 211, 212. 

Edgerley, Thomas, 7. 

Edghill fight, 10. 

Edmund hall chapel consecrated, 
241. 

Edwards, John, of Trinity, 238. 

Edwards, Dr. John, 307. 

Edwards, Thomas, 258. 

Egerly, John, 27. 

Election of burgesses for the univer- 
sity, 2i 1, 217, 222. 

Ellis, William, 65, 66, 67, 80. 

Elwood, Phineas, 290. 

Essex, Robert earl of; see Deve- 
reux, Robert. 

Etterick, Anth., 168. 

Evans, Hugh, 17. 

Evans, Joane, 18. 



Evans of Ch. Ch., 257. 

Evans, Mr., 310. 

Evelin, col. Arthur, 46. 

Exeter college, case about the head- 
ship, 294, 308. plate given to 
Chas. I., 14. evidences in good 
order, 145. 

F. 

F. H., Wood's regard for, 199. 

Fairclough, John, (or rather Rich- 
ard,) 245. 

Fairfax, lord, 329. 

Fairford church and windows, 107. 

Fairmedoe, Cornelius, 90. 

Farabosco, Alphonso, 68. 

Farmer, Anth., 258. 

Farmer, G., the locksmith, makes a 
saw to liberate Charles I., 74. 

Farrant, Henry, 336. 

Fast appointed, 213. 

Featley, see Fairclough. 

Fell, John, bishop of Oxford, 112, 
115, 128, 165. commends A. W. 
to the abp. of Cant., 167. provides 
a translator for Wood's Hist., 
172, 174. undertakes to print 
Wood's Hist, at his own cost, 

175. 193. i95». 2I2 > 2 35, 241. 

puts down coursing in the schools, 

255. his message to Hobbes, 350. 

speech founded to his memory, 

306. 
Ferae, John, 58. 
Feteplace, John, founds a school at 

Dorchester, 18. 
Fettiplace, Mr. 184. 
Field, Robert, 161. 
Finch, Heneage, 211. acts against 

A. W., 296. 
Finch, Leopold, 230. 
Finch, Leopold William, 266, 275. 
Fire of London, 149. 
Fires in Oxon., 200, 246. 
Fisher, Alexander, 94, 109, 112, 122. 

dies when senior fellow of Mer- 

ton, 179. 
Fisher, Catherine, 4, 141. 
Fisher, Walter, 179. 
Fitz-williams, John, 237. 
Flexney, William, 93. 
Flower, Henry, 105. 
Folkes, John, 203. 
Fooks, Thomas Broadley, 18. 
Forest, Edw., 152. 
Forest, William, 216. 
Fothergill, Dr. John, 81. 



INDEX, 



395 



Foulis, Henry, [42. his death, 168. 

Foulkes, Dr., 83. 

Fowler, Dr. Edward, 232. 

Fox, Richard, founder of C.C.C., his 
plate, 15. 

Franke, Thomas, his disingenuous 
conduct, 47. 

Frankland, Thomas, forges the uni- 
versity seal, 199. 

Franklin, John, 298. 

Franklin, Richard, 113. 

Fraser, J., 371, 373. 

French, John, 227. 

Friars, Wood writes a history of the 
various orders, 170. 

Friend, John, 65. 

Frith, Thomas, 357. 

Fry, Stephen, 241. 

Fulk, Thomas, 188, 209. 

Fulman,Will., of C. C. C, 291, 292. 

Fuscus, G. i. e.Will. Browne, 27, 28. 

Fussell, James, 18. 

Fyfald, or Fifield, Walter, 303. 
G. 

Gamble, John, 80. 

Gandy, Henry, 311. 

Gardiner, George, 266, 309. his 
death, 310. 

Gardiner, Henry, killed, 27, 28. 

Gardiner, John, 266. 

Gardiner, capt. Thomas, 51. 

Gardiner, sir Thomas, solicitor ge- 
neral, 26, 28. 

Gastrell, Francis, 195. 

Geddes, Mich., 174. 

George, Alice, commonly called 
Mother George, her great age, 186. 

George, prince George of Denmark, 
260. 

George, Thomas, 186. 

George, William, buried, 78. 

Gerard, Henry, 238. 

Gibbons, William, 257, 258. 

Gibson, Edm., 310. 

Glasses, for drinking, 259. 

Glendall, John, commonly called 
Jack, 105. his death and some ac- 
count of him, 108. 

Glexney, William, 67. 

Gloucester hall in a neglected con- 
dition, 194. 

Glyn, Eleanor, 83. 

Glynn, John, 59. 

Goad, John, vicar of Cassington, 42. 

Goddard, Jonathan, 63. 

Godwin, Joseph, 62. 



Goffe, Thomas, 168. 

Goodson, Ant. Wood's tenant, dies, 

175- 

Gore, Thomas, his Catalogue of Au- 
thors on Heraldry, 159, 178. 

Gorges, Robert, 309. 

Gould, William, 241, 257. 

Gourney, Thomas, 105. 

Gower, Dr., master of St. John's, 
Cambridge, 297. 

Grandpont house, 83. 

Greaves, colonel Richard, 24, 27. 

Greene, Anne, her hanging and re- 
covery, 46. verses on, 50. 

Greenwood, Daniel, 181, 184. 

Gregory, Edmund, 60. marries, 76. 
102. 

Grevile, Fulk, condemned, 104. 

Grey, Ford lord, 264. 

Griffith, Charles, musician, 57, 69. 

Griffith, Richard, 135. 

Grimston, sir Harbottle, 214, 219. 

Grove, Hugh, 82. ■ 

Grubb, John, 237. 

Guies, Hugh, 186. 

Guillim, John, his Display of He- 
raldry, 58. 

Gurgany, John, 342. 

Gutch, John, prints Wood's His- 
tory in the original English, 351. 

G wynne, Eleanor, 138. 
H. 

Hacket, Mary, 335. 

Hacket, William, 335. 

Hale, Matthew, 96. 

Hales, Edward, 273, 282. 

Hall, Anthony, mayor of Oxon., 187. 

Hall, Dr. John, preaches against the 
papists, 205. treats A. W. with 
neglect, 209. 

HaU, Nich., 238. 

Hall, Thos., 281. 

Hall, Wm., preaches before James 
II., 281, 287. 

Halton, Timothy, 228, 238. denies 
certain masters their votes, 294, 
308. 

Hamden family, factious, 31. 

Hamer, James, 170. 

Hammond, Dr. John, 240, 241. 

Hammond, Mainwaring, 302. 

Hanham, Robert, 116. 

Hanks, Margery, 357. 

Hanks, Tomson, 357. 

Hanson, capt., 28. 

Harbin, George, nonjuror, 311. 



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INDEX. 



Harcourt, sir John, 8. 
Harcourt, Mary, 8. 
Harcourt, sir Philip, 227. 
Harding, Michael, 205. 
Harding, Mrs., of Holywell, 316. 
Harding, Soladell, 198, 221. 
Harley, Edw., earl of Oxford, 3, 4, 

155- 

Harmar, John, Greek professor im- 
posed upon, 99. 
Harper's coffee house, 48. 
Harpesfield, Mich., 215. 
Harrington, James, 298, 299. speech 

on him, 303, 373. 
Harris, Charles, 257. 
Harris, Edward, 17. 
Harris, John, 77, 267. 
Harris, Mary, 77, 134. 
Harris, a painter, dies, 106, 182. 
Harris, Rich., of Wootten, 89. 
Harris, Rob., president of Trinity, 

t68, 169. 
Harris, Walter, 191. 
Harrison, Christ., 89, 92, 105. 
Harvey, Joseph, 109, 113, 124. 
Haselwood, Anthony, a bookseller, 

no. 
Haselwood, John, an apothecary, 67, 

121. 
Haselwood, Tho., barber, no. 
Haslewood, Joseph, 376. 
Haslem, John, 197. 
Hatton, of Kirbye, 91. 
Hawking, Ann, 17. 
Hawking, Robert, 17. 
Hawley, Henry, 75, 102. 
Hayes, Tho., of Wadham, 238. 
Haynes, Will., 83. 
Hazlewood, John, dean of Oriel, 89. 
Hearne, John, 167. 
Hearne, Thomas, first publishes 

Wood's Life, 2. his account of 

A. W., 325. his memoranda of 

A. W., 337. 
Heburne, butler of New Inn, 265. 
Hedges, Mr., 287. 
Hen, — butcher and rebel, 23. 
Henant, Elizabeth, 17. 
Henant, Thomas, 17, 19, 32. his 

death, 141. 
Henchman, Humph., 133. 
Henderson, John, the player, 263. 
Henrietta Maria, queen, lodges in 

Merton coll., 342. 
Henvill, Matthias, 232. 
Herbert, Charles, lord, 199. 



Herbert, Edward, lord Herbert of 
Cherbury, 217. 

Heme, — a crooked back tailor of 
Oxford, 130. 

Heycock, Richard, 100. 

Heylin, Tho., 256. 

Hey wood, — rebel, 23. 

Hickes, George, 242. 

Hickman, Francis, 297. 

Hide, Dr. James, 267. 

Hide, Rob., 267. 

High way from St. Clement's to 
Marston pitched, 245. 

Hill, John, 105. 

Hill, Margaret, 44. 

Hill, Will., clerk of Merton, 45. 

Hinton, Dr. Giles, his death, 204. 

Hoare, see Hore. 

Hobbes, Adam, 94. 

Hobbes, Tho., 153. alterations made 
in A. W.'s life of him, 348, 350. 

Hodges, Anthony, 43. 

Hog, Tho., 258. 

Holloway, Charles, serj. at law, 69. 

Holloway, Charles, 200, 201. 

Holloway, Francis, 201. 

Holloway, John, 113, 114. 

Holloway, Necessity, 293. 

Holloway, Richard, 162, 200. 

Holloway, Rob., 200. 

Holman, Philip, 93. 

Holt, Charles, 237. 

Holt, Ralph, 58, 108. 

Holywell, fire in, 94. 

Holy day, Barton, 62. a sad acci- 
dent during the celebration of the 
holy communion, eii, 128. 

Holy day, George, 128. 

Holyday, Thomas, 128. 

Holyday, Will, 128. 

Hooker, Richard, [30. 

Hord, Thos., 227, 264. 

Hore, Anne, 82. 

Hore, Richard, 82, 83. 

Horseman's coffee house, 48. 

Hough, John, 303. 

Houghton, John, 112. 

Howard, lord Marshall, 195. 

Howell, James, 48. 

Howell, William, 236. 

Howes's windows broken, 310. 

Howson, Mr., of Merton, 47. 

Huddesford, William, his character 
of Wood, 346. makes a catalogue 
of his MSS , 352. 

Huddleston, John, aids Chas.II., 1 76. 



INDEX, 



397 



Hudson, Christ., bell founder, 222. 

Hudson, John, 189. 

Hughes, lieut., 28. 

Humphreys, Humph., 246. 

Hunt, Stephen, 256, 258. 

Huntingdon, or rather Huntington, 
Robert, 113, 255. 

Huntington, dean, 184. 

Hurst, Hen., 113. 

Hussey, hanged, 58. 

Hutton, Matthew, 91, 154. his col- 
lections purchased by lord Ox- 
ford, 155. 

Hwyden, Vander, of Oriel, 213. 

Hyde, Edw., earl of Clarendon, 314, 
328. 

Hyde, Henry, earl of Clarendon, has 
an interview with Wood, 311. 

Hyde, Dr. James, taxed by the city, 
and resists, 222. regius professor 
of medicine, dies, 229, 267. 

Hyde, sir Robert, 137. 

Hyde, Dr.Tho., 144, 163, 284, 285, 
286. 

Hyde, Tho., a notary, 142. 

Hyll, Walter, 15. 

1. J . 

Jackson, Eliz., 357. 

Jackson, Henry, 106. account of, 
130. 

Jackson, Hen., draper of Oxon.,357. 

Jackson, Joseph, 294. 

Jackson, Tho., musician, 66, 93. 

Jacob, the Jew, 48. 

James II., king, when duke of York 
in Oxford, 11. his statue set up in 
univ., 273. comes to Oxon., 274. 
commends love and charity to the 
seniors of the univ., 289. 

James, John, 200. 

James, Dr. John, 235. 

James, Tho., or Janes, of Magd., 
66, 135. 

James, Tho., warden of AU-S., 145. 

James, William, teacher of music 
and dancing, 69. 

James, deputy orator, 255. 

Jane, Dr. Will., 235. 

Jeamson, Tho., 237. 

Jeffryes, Christopher, 91. 

Jeffiyes, George, 91. 

Jellyman, Matthew, 132. 

Jenkins, Judge; Wood prosecuted 
on account of a passage in his 
life, 366. Aubrey's note on, 386. 

Jenkinson, Tho., 197, 204. 



Jenkyns, John, the wonder of his 

age for music, 67, 68. 
Jenkyns, sir Leoline, 166. very kind 

to A. W., 180. elected burgess for 

the univ., 217, 219. 
Jennings, reacher of the records in 

the tower, 150. a boon blade, 151. 
Jerusalem, the king of (Mr. Basker- 

vile), 86. his portrait, 87. 
Jesus coll. plate given to Chas. I., 14. 
Jewkes, Roland, 96, 98. 
lies, Thomas, 6, 7. 
Ingoldesby family, factious, 31. 
Ingoldesby, col. Henry, 39, 51, 52. 
Inventory of goods 1598, 64. 
Jobson, Cirques, sells coffee in Ox- 
ford, 60. 
Johnson, Samuel, 242. 
Johnston, Nathaniel, 290, 329. 
Jones, Edw., 113. 
Jones, Humphry, 89, 90. 
Jones, John, 65. 
Jones, Martha, 89. 
Jones, Nicholas, 90. 
Jones, Tho., 69, 109. 
Jones, Dr. Tho., 114. 
Jones, Tho., fellow of Merton, 118, 

119. his death, 120. 
Jones, chancellor of Llandaff, cited 

by the bishop, 292. 
Joyner, Mr., 250, 252. 
Ironside, Gilbert, 98, 273. 
Isham, Zaccheus, 258. 
Jucks, Roland, 96, 98. 
Julian the Apostate, 242. 
Juxon, Will., abp. of Cant., 109. a 

very quiet man, 118. 
K. 
Keeling, Venables, 238. 
Kelley, sir Edw., 153. 
Ken, Thomas, afterwards bishop of 

Bath and Wells, 91. 
Kennett, Basil, 319. 
Kennett, White, his Letter from a 

Student, 227, 240, 290, 293. his 

grace denied, 302. 
Kent, John, of St. John's, 271. 
Kent, Rich., 271. 
Killigrew, Henry, 137. 
Kinaston, an enthusiast or impostor, 

98. 
King, John, of St. Mary hall, 233. 
King, John, a butler, 221. 
King's Sutton, 306. 
Kinsey, Robert, 297. 
Kipling, John, 18. 



398 



INDEX. 



Kirby, clerk of St. Aldate's, no. 

L. 
Lamb, John, 162. 
Lambeth, dinner at, 165. 
Lampert, lieut., 28. 
Lamphire, John, 65, 94, 164, 175, 

an. 
Lamphyre, a postmaster of Merton, 

269. 
Lamplugh, Tho., in, 138. 
Lamplugh, Will., 18. 
Lane, Mr., 194. 
Lane, James, 218, 219. 
Lane, Tho., 258. 
Langbaine, Gerard, his Miscellanea, 

318. 
Langford, Emanuel, 255. 
Langley, Henry, 91, 92, 98. 
Lant, John, 4. 

Lasenby, Mrs., of the Mitre, 258. 
Latton, Tho., 60, 209, 270. 
Latton, Will., 270. 
Laud, Will., entertains king Chas. I., 

7- 

Lauderdale, John duke of, 196. 

Law, Tho., 168. 

Lee, Tim. Tripp, 18. 

Legge, Geo. lord Dartmouth, 278. 

Legge, col. Rob., 25, 26. 

Legge, col. Will., 25. 

Leland, John, his Collections, 71. 

Lenton, Norris, 156. 

Le Petite ; see Pettie. 

L'Estrange, Roger, 219. has a sum 
of money sent him from Cam- 
bridge, 246. 

Le Tellier, Charles Maurice, 195,196. 

Levett, sir Rich., 301. 

Levett, Wm., nominated to be prin- 
cipal of Magd. hall, 230, 258. his 
death, 301,311. 

Levinz, Will., pres. of St. John's, 
105. his sudden death, 189. 

Lewes, John, 93. 

Lewes, Margaret, 130. 

Lewes, William, 130. 

Ley, Jas., earl of Marlborough, 141. 

Leycester, sir Peter, 170. 

Lhuyd, Edw., 386. 

Lilly, William, 73, 74. 

Lincoln coll. plate given to Chas. I., 
14. 

Lister, Martin, 81. 

Litchfield, Leonard, 87, 221. 

Littlemore, 127. 

Littleton, Gervace, 67. 



Lloyd, Dr., preaches bp. Wilkins's 
funeral sermon, 81. 

Lloyd, Nich., of Wadh., a dear ac- 
quaintance of Wood's, 171. 

Lloyd, Will., 99. makes the music 
speech, 245. 

Lloyd, Wm., bp. of St. Asaph, his 
book censured, 292. 

Locke, John, 134, 135. 

Loughler, Rob., pledges his plate to 
the univ., 127. 

Louse, mother, 185. 

Lovelace, lady, insulted, 230. 

Lovelace, lord, encourages Titus 
Oates, 220. interferes in an elec- 
tion, 223. 

Lovell, father, 209. 

Lovell, Mary, 236. 

Low, Edward, account of, 66, 67, 80. 
directs a music lecture, 105. 

Lower, Richard, 129, 135. 

Lowth, Will., 189. 

Lucas, John, his will, 41. 

Lutterell, Mr., said to have the pa- 
tent for an earldom, 205. 

Lydall, Richard, 297. admitted war- 
den of Merton, 298. 

Lyndesey, Tho., 231. 
M. 

Mace of the lord chan. stolen, 195. 

Magdalen bridge, the way there new 
pitched, &c, 227. 

Magdalen college plate given to 
Chas. I., 14. plate left to the col- 
lege, 247. chapel plate stolen, 189. 
a second time, 307. the college 
petition James II., 283. 

Magdalen hall, — Fellows of Magd. 
coll. claim to nominate the prin- 
cipal, 229. another attempt on the 
part of the college to nominate 
the principal, 302. case of Mag- 
dalen hall, 305. hall plate stolen, 

3°7- 
Maid hanged, restored to life, and 

hanged a second time, 79. 
Malbon's coffee house, 48. 
Mallory, Henry, 80. 
Man, Mr., 85. 
Manchester, earl of, see Montagu, 

Edw. 
Manningham, Tho., 198, 206, 214. 
March, Caspar, 258. 
Markets, grants of, 203. 
Marlborough, James, earl of, see Ley, 

James. 



INDEX. 



399 



Marriott, Tho., 206. 

Marsh, Narcissus, abp. of Tuam, 
92, 299. 

Marsh, the tailor, 221. 

Marshall, Tho., 233, 235. 

Martin, Matth., town-clerk, 79. 

Martin, Nicholas, 318, 336, 339, 
340. 

Martin, Rich., reads prayers with 
A. W. when his end drew near, 
340. 

Mary, queen, orders a copy of Ath. 
et Fast. Oxon., 307. 

Mason, Geo., 60. 

Massey, col. Edw., 95. 

Massey, John, 219, 256, 258. 

Masters of arts unruly in convoca- 
tion, 245. 

Masters, Tho., his Life of Hen.VIIL, 
217. 

Maund, Clinton, tutor to A.W., 44, 

Maurice, Henry, 256. 

Maurice, prince, in Oxford, 11. 

Maxwell, James, 72. 

May, Baptist, 137. 

Maylard, John, 8. 

Maynard, John, 59. 

Maynard, Joseph, 143. 

Mayott, high sheriff, 240. 

Medcalf, Scrope, major in the royal 
army, 25. killed, 27. 

Medicis, Cosmo de, visits Oxford. 
163. 

Mell, Davis, the violinist, 77. his 
sweet playing, 82. 

Meredith, Edward, Ch. Ch., 242. 

Merret, Christopher, 321. 

Merton college, the roof of the outer 
chapel falls in, 63. the chapel 
disfigured and pillaged, 103. re- 
pair of the chapel, 190. the bells 
recast, 68, 222. the warden's 
lodgings altered, 121, 299. the 
ornaments over the gate restored, 
248. the plate given to Charles 
I., 14. goes to law with the city, 
124. 

Mews, Peter, president of St. John's, 
146. kind to A. W., 154, 167, 
174, 180. 
Middleton, Thomas, 18. 
Middlesex, Charles lord, see Sack- 

ville, Charles. 
Mill, or Mills, John, 214, 241, 242. 
Millington, Thomas, 64, 135, 145. 
Milton, John, 127. 



Minshull, Christopher, killed, 230. 

Minshull, Francis, 230. 

Mist great in Oxford, 200. 

Monk, George, 105. 

Monmouth, James, duke of, his in- 
surrection 1685, 263, 264. his 
name erased from the books of 
C. C. C, 255. rejoicings in Oxon 
at his defeat, 272. 

Montagu, Edward, earl of Manches- 
ter, 22. 

Moore, John, bp. of Norwich, 310. 

Mordant, Henry, 268. 

Mordaunt, Henry, earl of Peter- 
borough, 219. 

More, see Mower. 

Morley, Geo., bp. of Winchester, 27. 

Morocco, emperor of, sends a letter 
to Charles II., which is different- 
ly interpreted, 238. 

Morrell, William, 198. 

Mower, John, 232. 

Mugg, Emanuel, 291. 

Mulgrave, John earl of, see Sheffield, 
John. 

Musgrave, William, 257, 258. 

Music meetings in Oxford, 65. lec- 
ture, 105. speech, 232. lecturers, 

237- 

Muswell hermitage, 155. 

Mynnes, Thomas, 176. 
N. 

Nap, John, 60. 

Napier, Geo., 175. 

Napier family buried at Holywell, 
178. 

Naseby fight, 31. 

Nassau, William Henry, prince of 
Orange, 175. 

Neale, Phelim o', 8. 

Newburg, John William prince of, 
visits Oxford, 193. 

New coll. cloister and tower, the 
king's (Charles I.) magazine de- 
posited there, 11. plate there, 14, 
15. their evidences transcribed, 
147. the new quadrangle, 239. 
school flourishes, 302. statues 
discovered at the altar, 310. 

Newdigate, Richard, 205. 

New Inn, the mint there, 15. 

Newe, Tho., 222. 

Nicholas, Dr. John, warden of New 
coll., 197. inspects Wood's pa- 
pers on suspicion, 207, 208. 

Nicholls, Win,. 202. 



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INDEX. 



Nicolls, Peter, 48, 113, 132, 140, 145, 
202. 

Night-watch, 197. 

Nixon, John, and his school, 78. 

Nixon, Joan, 79. 

Noble, Will., cook at Merton, 35. 

Norreys, James lord, 222, 248. 

Norreys, sir John, 85. 

Norreys, lord Montagu, eldest son 
of the earl of Abingdon, 268. 

Norris or Norreys, sir Edw., 21 1, 227. 

Northleigh parish, 89. 

Northton of Ch. Ch., 237. 

Notary-public, witnesses A. W.'s 
engagement to be faithful in re- 
spect to the univ. records, 142. 

Notley or Nutley, 157. 

Nourse or Nurse,Timothy, renounces 
the Roman catholic religion, 160, 
177, 191, 192. but relapses, 198. 
O. 

Oates, Titus, 220. 

Ogle, sir Thomas, 136. 

Oldisworth, William, 106. 

Oldys, Wm., of New coll., 217. 

Oliffe, Ralph, 258. 

Onslow, Jane, 157. 

Orator, public, election of, 198, 213, 
214. 

Oriel college plate given to Chas. I., 
14. pieces still there, 15. 

Ormond, James duke of, see Butler, 
James. 

Osbaldeston, sir Lacy, offends A.W., 

3°5- 
Osbaldeston, sir Littleton, 178. 
Osborne, Tho., afterwards duke of 

Leeds, lord treasurer, 196. 
Owen, Geo., 5. 
Owen, Dr. John, dean of Ch. Ch., 

83, 99. 
Oxford, archdeaconry of, dispute 

concerning, 138. 
Oxford, county of, visitation of, by 

Clarenceux, 161. 
Oxford, university of, 1. 

1636. 
King Charles I., the queen, and 

prince Rupert there, 6. 
1642. 
Put into a state of defence \ the 

scholars and privileged men train- 
ed, 10, 11. 

1643. 
The Mint at New Inn ; college plate, 

&c. turned into money, 15. 



1646. 
State of it after the surrender of the 
garrison, 31, 33. 
1648. 
The visitation by persons appointed 
by the parliament, 38. 
1650. 
Coffee introducted and much drank 
there, 48. 

1656. 
State of music ; musicians there, 
65, 69. 

The same, 77. 

1658. 

The same, 80, 82, 88. petition 

against standing ministers, 84. 

1659. 

Selden's library brought into that 
of Bodley, 95. covenant with Sel- 
den's executors, 97. music, 102. 
destruction of old paintings and 
inscriptions in chapels, 103. 
1660. 

Music lecture, 105. restoration ob- 
served, 105. Selden marbles s6t 
up, 106. 

1661. 

Epidemic rages, 129. 
1663. 

Chymical club began, 134. 
1669. 

Cosmo de Medicis entertained at 
Oxford, 163. Elias Ashmole visits 
the university, 164. dedication of 
the theatre, 164. duke of Or- 
monde installed chancellor, 166. 
Delegates of the press agree to 
print the Hist, et Antiq. Univ. 
Oxon., 167. 

1670. 

The university pay Anthony a Wood 
100Z. for the copy of Hist, et An- 
tiq. Univ. Oxon., 171. resolutions 
of a meeting of the delegates 
about Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon., 
172, 174. the prince of Orange 
and Nassau entertained by the 
university, 175. 

1673. 

Controversy concerning the canons 
of Christ-church preaching, 190. 
lord Fairfax's MSS. taken from 
the Bodleian library, to dry them 
upon the leads, 192. 



INDEX. 



401 



1674. 

The curators of the press present 
the Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. to 
the king, 193. 

1675. 

The prince of Newburgh visits Ox- 
ford, 193. the Hist, et Antiq. 
Univ. Oxon. and other books pre- 
sented to him, and to Cosmo de 
Medicis, grand duke of Tuscany, 
194. 

1677. 

Charles Maurice Tellier, archbishop 
of Rheims, visits the university, 
195. dispute with the city about 
the night watch, 197. election of 
a public orator on the resignation 
of Dr. South, 198. convocation 
declare that Tho. Frankland of 
Brazen-nose coll. never took the 
degree of D. M., 199. reasons of 
the decline of learning in the 
university, 201. 

1678. 

Proceedings in the dispute about 
the watch, 201. convocation vote 
that no act shall be celebrated, 
and the reason why, 203. cours- 
ing left off, 203. banter ers, who, 

204. trial about the watch ended, 

205. search in the university for 
persons supposed to be popishly 
affected, 206. programma relat- 
ing to the behaviour of the scho- 
lars towards the dragoons, 208. 

1679. 
State of St. Augustine's disputations, 
210. election of burgesses, 211. 
the collectors cease from enter- 
taining the determining bachelors, 
213. election of a public orator, 
213. a fast proclaimed, 213. dis- 
pensation for removing the music 
lecture from the school to the 
theatre, 215. election for bur- 
gesses, 217. Titus Oates denied 
his D. D. degree, 220. election of 
a yeoman bedel, 221. 

1681. 
Privileged men cessed towards the 
militia, 222. election of burgesses, 
222. St. Scholastica; origin of the 
ceremony on that day; attempts 
to evade it, 223. the ceremony 
abolished, 224. determining ba- 
chelors, 224. divinity school used 

WOOD, VOL. I. 



for the Lent exercises, 225. re- 
ception of the duke of Brunswick, 
226. one term granted condition- 
ally to undergraduates, 226. con- 
vocation house fitted up for the 
commons, 226. king Charles II. 
comes to Oxford, 227. prices of 
all vendibles stuck up in public 
places, 228. prices of wines an. 
1667, 1673, 229. election of an 
esquire beadle, 230. dispute in 
convocation about granting seven 
terms for the degree of M. A., 
231. music speech in the school 
— why not in the theatre, 232. 
terrae filius cudgelled, 232. terrae 
filii full of roguery, 232. univer- 
sity present to Seiston in Lei- 
cestershire, 233. commissioners 
appointed by the chancellor to 
govern the university during his 
absence, 235. music lecturers 
from 1661 to 1675, 237. v terrae 
filii from 1657 to 1675, 237. 
1682. 

Order from the king, that the pro- 
fessor of Arabic and others trans- 
late the emperor of Morocco's 
letter, 238. St. Scholastica, the 
citizens appear in full number, 
238. the university very thin, 
the reasons why, 239. collec- 
tions in the university for the 
French protestants, 240. convo- 
cations about Dr. Busby's lec- 
ture, refused by the masters, and 
the reasons why, 240, 243. dis- 
pute which should be presented 
first, bachelors of law or physic, 
241. chancellor's letters, for re- 
gulating the behaviour of the 
masters, read in convocation, 245. 
music lecturer and terrae filii, 245. 
1683. 

Number of determining bachelors, 
251, 254. the museum Ashmo- 
leanum opened. Mr. Ashmole's 
letters read in convocation; and 
a letter of thanks returned to him, 
255. music lecture, 255. Park- 
inson expelled for whiggism, 256. 
the elabatory finished; chymical 
or philosophical society establish- 
ed; list of the members, 256. the 
king returns a letter of thanks 
for the burning of several books 
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402 



INDEX. 



containing pernicious principles, 

257- 

1685. 

Delegates named to consider about 
the raising a regiment of scholars, 
265. Proceedings thereupon in 
the several colleges, 265 — 273. 
1687. 

The reception of king James II., 
274 — 289. his entertainment in 
the Bodleian library, &c. 284. 
1692. 

Proceedings in the vice-chancellor's 
court against Anthony a Wood, 
290. 

1693. 

Few scholars in Oxford, 292. the 
charter of the university confirmed 
by parliament, 292. the princes 
of Saxe Gotha visit the university 
incog., 294. masters in morning 
gowns denied the exercise of their 
votes, 294. Athenee Oxonienses 
sentenced, and the sentence put 
into execution, 295 — 297. 
1694. 

Trial between the chancellor and 
Magdalen college, 305. 
1695. 

The university present verses to 
king William III., with an ad- 
dress of condolence on the loss 
of the queen, 308. determining 
bachelors 308. university verses 
published, 308. 

Oxford, city of. 

1634. 
Owen and Ryley, officers of arms, 
visit Oxford, and take account of 
arms and pedigrees of the gentry 
of the county, 5. 
1636. 
King Chas. I., the queen Henrietta 
Maria, and prince Rupert come 
from Woodstock to Oxford, 6. 
1642. 
King Charles and his army enter 
Oxford, 11. 

1643. 

The plate belonging to the citizens 

of Oxon. turned into money to 

pay the army, 14. 

1644. 

Motions of the parliament army 



near Oxford, 16. a great fire 
there, 19. 

1646. 
The garrison surrendered, 31. 

1648. 
A plot of the cavaliers ; how detect- 
ed, 40. 

1650. 
Anne Green hanged and recovered, 
46. a coffee-house first opened in 
Oxford, 48. 

165 1. 
Verses upon Anne Green, 50. 

1654. 
Hussey and Peck hanged, 58. 

1655. 
Coffee sold publicly, 60. names of 
those who frequented the coffee- 
house, 64. 

1656. 
Music club in Oxford, 65. 

1657. 
Staining of marble discovered by 
Will. Byrd, 77. 

1658. 
Alderman Nixon's school finished, 
78. woman hung for murdering 
her bastard child, recovered by 
Corners of St. John's, and again 
hanged by the bayliffs, 79. high 
wind previously to the protector's 
death, 82. Richard Cromwell pro- 
claimed protector, 82. the pro- 
claimed pelted, 83. 
1659. 
A fire in Holywell, 94. houses 
searched for arms, 94. a high 
wind, 95. great rejoicing for the 
news of a free parliament, 102. 
the usurpers deface a chapel, and 
destroy the monuments and in- 
scriptions, 103. 

1660. 
The restoration celebrated with great 
rejoicings, 105. 

1664. 
A blazing star seen, 140. 

1665. 
A comet seen, 142. the king comes 
from Salisbury to Oxford, to avoid 
the plague, 144. 
1668. 
Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, 
holds a visitation at Oxford, 161. 



INDEX. 



403 



1669. 
Oxford feast established, 161. fly- 
ing-coach set up, 162. 
1670. 
Oxford feast, 171. the town ditch, 
on the east- side of New College 
wall, drained for the erection of 
buildings, 175. 

1671. 
The parishioners of St. Peter in the 
East, intrude on the limits of St. 
John Baptist parish de Merton, 
but are checked, 176. Oxford 
feast, 178. 

1673. 
Anthony Hall, elected mayor, 187. 
disturbance between the scholars 
and townsmen, 188. Oxford feast, 

l88 - .677- 

A large sturgeon taken at Clifton 
ferry, 196. Oxford feast, 197. the 
mayor and bayliffs indicted for 
not keeping up the night watch, 
197. the duke of Buckingham 
entertained by the city, 198. the 
number of Serjeants at law in Ox- 
ford, 200. coffee-houses increase 
very much, 201. 

1678. 

Colds very frequent, 201. number 
of ale-houses in Oxford, 203. 
dragoons quartered there, 203. 
Oxford feast, 204. fire in All- 
hallows parish, 206. houses of all 
suspected to be papists searched, 
206, 209. i6l9 

Collection for the poor, 210. a dra- 
goon shoots a taylor's wife, 210, 
an alteration made in the prayer 
used by the city lecturers of St. 
Martin's before their sermons, 
210. election of burgesses, 211. 
a fire, 214. the highway in St. 
Giles's repaired, 214. election of 
burgesses, 216. Robert Pauling, 
draper, chosen mayor, 219. a poor 
man dies with hunger and cold, 
220. a flood in the Cherwell, 221. 
1681. 

Alderman Wright makes a motion 
to a committee to have the cere- 
mony of St. Scholastica's day set 
aside, 222. the city desire a night 
watch, 222. the duke of Buck- 
ingham comes to Oxford, 223. 



election of burgesses, 223. dispute 
about St. Scholastica's day, 223. 
origin of the ceremony, its dis- 
continuance, and the great grati- 
tude professed by the citizens to 
*the university, 225. the way lead- 
ing to the water at Magdalen 
bridge new pitched and walled, 
227. the king came to Oxford, 
227. Paynton, the town-clerk, 
dies, 232. Prince chosen, 233. 
Stephen College, the protestant 
joyner, brought prisoner to the 
castle, 233. hanged and quarter- 
ed, 234. extremely mild weather, 
236. Oxford feast, 236. 
1682. 
Alderman "Wright, advises the citi- 
zens to appear on St. Scholastica's 
day, 238. a flood, 240. collection 
for the protestants from France, 
240. Charles Harris proposes to 
found an hospital; the citizens 
refuse him a piece of ground for 
that purpose, 241. the highway 
from St. Clement's church to the 
way leading to Marston pitched, 

245. a fire, 246. Oxford feast, 

246. rejoicing that lord Norreys 
was made earl of Abingdon, 247. 

1683. 
Thanksgiving day; how observed 
by the citizens, 256. sir Richard 
Croke, recorder, dies ; sir George 
Pudsey elected, 256. 
1685. 
Several persons taken up, among 
whom Robert Pawling, and com- 
mitted to the castle, 265. rejoic- 
ings on the defeat of the rebels, 272. 
1687. 
The reception of king James, 274 — 
290. 

1693. 
High price of provisions, 292. and 
disturbances on that account, 293. 
Oxford hackney-coaches robbed, 
299. 

1694. 
Thurston chosen town-clerk, 306. 
the winter severe, 307. 
1695. 
Slatford obtains the town-clerkship, 
308. riot at a canvass for bur- 
gesses, 310. Oxford feast, 316. 
the historian of Oxford dies, 317. 
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INDEX. 



Paget, Diana, 158. 

Palmer, Elizabeth, marries Geo. 
Baynard, 141. 

Palmer, John, warden of All-Souls, 
a great rumper, 102, 141. 

Palmer, Mary, marries Ralph Bath- 
urst, 141. 

Palmer, Sam., of Merton, 184. 

Panting, Matthew, 214. 

Parker, Henry, his cabinet of rari- 
ties, 204. 

Parker, John, musician, 67, 69. 

Parker, Sam., 180. 

Parkinson, C.C.C., expelled, 256. 

Parry, Francis, 91, 105. 

Parsons, Robert, 216. 

Patrick, Simon, 198. 

Pauling, Robert, 219, 265. 

Paynter, Rich., 294. 

Paynton, John, townclerk, 162, 232. 

Paynton, John, the younger, town- 
clerk, 232, 233. 

Peacock e, col. Jo., 266. 

Pearson, John, bp. of Chester, 149. 

Pearson, Richard, librarian to sir J. 
Cotton, 148. visits A. W., 163. 

Peck, hanged, 58. 

Peers, Rich., translates Wood's his- 
tory into Latin, 172, 184, 190. fat 
and unable to ride, 275. 

Peireskius, N. C. F., 344. 

Pekins, John, 61. 

Pelham, Dr. Herbert, dies, 175. 

Pelling, John, 317. 

Penn, William, 282. 

Penniless bench, 36. 

Penruddock, John, 82. 

Penton, Stephen, stands for the 
oratorship, 213, 214, 246. 

Penyston, sir Tho., 178. 

Perrot, Charles, 88, 89, 92, 192. 
elected burgess for the university, 
217, 219. 

Perrot, Edward, 88, 89. 

Perrot, Eliz., 88. 

Perrot, Robert, 88, 89. 

Peterborough, earl of; see John 
Mor daunt, earl of Peterb. 

Pett, Peter, 4, 64, 77. 

Pettie or Petty, Charnel, 58, 93. his 
death, 108. 

Pettie, Elizabeth, 18. 

Pettie, Ellen, 129. 

Pettie, Harcourt, 106. 

Pettie, Leonard, 17. 



Pettie, Maria, 325. 

Pettie, Mary, afterwards Wood, mo- 
ther of A. W., 12, 357. 

Pettie, Maximilian, 5, 18. 

Pettie, Penelope, 8. 

Pettie, Robert, 8, 84, 106, 357. 

Philipps, Anth., 47. 

Philipps, chandler of Oxford, 264. 

Philipps, Richard, 46. 

Philips, Geo., 95. 

Phillipps, sir Thos., reprints the ca- 
talogue of Wood's MSS., 352. 

Phips, the rag-man, capt., 23. taken 
prisoner, 24. 

Pigot, Henry, 258. 

Pigot, Tho., 258. 

Pink, Robert, 9. when vice-chanc. 
superintends the training of the 
scholars, 10. 

Pinnack, Joan, 336. 

Pinthurst, Mr., of Pemb., 231. 

Pitt, Robert, 257. 

Plague, 141. in Oxford, 16. 

Plate in Oxford given to Charles I., 
14. specimens still remaining in 
Oxford, 15, 16. 

Plate pledged to the university for 
money advanced, 127. 

Playford, John, 77. 

Plays, collection of old, by R. Shel- 
don, 263. 

Plott, Rob., 256, 257, 258. 

Plowden, Edm., 199. 

Pocock, Edw., 174, 283. 

Pointer, John, 132, 316. 

Pole-money, 146. 

Poor-rate at St. Giles in the Fields 
and elsewhere, 209, 210. 

Pope, sir Thomas, 16. 

Pope, Walter, 293. 

Porie, Elizabeth, 64. 

Porie, Peter, 64. 

Portionists' hall, 139. 

Potter, Hannibal, 169. 

Pottinger, Miss, marries Edm. Gre- 
gory, 76, 77. 

Powell family, account of, 127. 

Powell, Edmund, 127. 

Powell, James, 127. 

Powell, John, 44, 48, 113, 127. 

Powell, Thomas, 127. 

Powell, Will., 127. 

Powis, lady, 195. 

Pratt, Tho., 80. 

Prayer before sermons at Carfax, 
210. 



INDEX. 



405 



Preaching, controversy on univer- 
sity, 190. 

Presbyterians upset, but several rat- 
ted at the Restoration, 106. 

Priaulx, Dr. John, 109. 

Price, Anne, 18. 

Price, Henry, dresses a sturgeon, 196. 

Price, John, Bodley's librarian, ac- 
count of, 88. 

Price, Robert, 88. 

Prices of carriage, 162, 163. 

Prices of eatables, &c. in Oxford 
1681, 228. 

Prichard, sir Will., 246. 

Pricket, George, 46. 

Prideaux, John, 350. 

Prince, Thomas, 215. 

Prince, Edward, townclerk, 233. 

Prior, Matth., 138. 

Proast, Jonas, 189. 

Proctor, Joseph, musician, 67. 

Proctor's black-book, 382. 

Protestants flying from France, suc- 
coured, 240. 

Prowse, chaplain of All-Souls, 302. 

Prynne, William, account of his 
manner and dress, 149. 

Pudsey, Alex., 190, 258. scolded by 
James II., 282. 

Pudsey, George, offers himself for 
Oxford city, 211, 216, 222, 223. 

Pudsey, sir Geo., elected recorder, 
256, 278. 

Puide, , adjutant-general to the 

pari, army, 28, 29. his baseness, 30. 

Pullen, Josiah, 258. 
Q. 

Queen's coll. plate given to Charles 
I. 14. 

Quin, James, gets his student's place 
at Ch. Ch. from Cromwell for his 
singing, 101. 

Quin, Walter, 101. 
R. 

Raines, sir Richard, 336. 

Rainolds, John, 130. 

Ranelagh, Jones lord, 289. 

Rawlins, Bernard, 99. 

Rawlinson, Richard, 172, 261. col- 
lects memoranda of A. W., 341. 

Rawlyns, William, 214. 

Raymond, justice, 233. 

Read, Jeffry, 46. 

Read, sir Thomas, of Dun stew, 46. 

Reddrop, Edward, 231. 

Rede, Edmund, 155. 



Reed, John, writes Tabula Votiva, 
177. 

Reed, Isaac, 263. 

Reeks, Henry, 291. 

Reeve, Eliz., 232. 

Reeve, Richard, one of the transla- 
tors of Wood's Hist., 172, 190. 
becomes a papist, 191. 

Regiment to be raised among the 
scholars, 265. 

Reynolds, Edward, late dean of Ch. 
Ch., elected warden of Merton by 
royal favour, 106. resigns Mer- 
ton, and is preferred to the see of 
Norwich, 108. 

Rhodes, Richard, 92. 

Rich, sir , of Sunning, 191. 

Rich, lady Frances, 158. 

Rich, Henry, earl of Holland, 158. 

Richard, William, of All Souls, 182. 

Richardson, John, 133. 

Richmond, Charles duke of, 130. 

Richmond, Marg. duchess of, 130. 

Richmond, Stephen, 46. 

Ridley, undersheriff, 206. 

Riot at election of mayor, 188. 

Risby, Judith, 157. 

Roberts, George, 112, 113. 

Roberts, Michael, D.D. dies, 214. 

Robinson, Henry, 230. 

Rogers, William, 166, 17 [, 195, 274, 
289. 

Rosamund, fair, 203, 316. 

Rowden, Edward, 131. 

Rowney, Thomas, 4, 5, 94, J41, 310. 
grants an annuity to A. W., 316. 

Royal Society, first germ of, 256, 

257- 

Royal visit to Oxon., 274 — 289. 
Royse, George, 242, 282. 
Rumsey, William, 48. 
Rupert, prince, in Oxford, 1 1 . 
Russell, William lord, 242. 
Ryley, William, 5. 
Ryther, Jane, 72. 

S. 
Sackville, Charles, earl of Middlesex, 

13^ 137- 
Sackville, Edward, earl of Dorset, 

237- 
Sadler, Thomas, hanged for stealing 

the lord chancellor's mace, 195. 
Sadler, Vincent, 177. 
St. Alban's abbey, 16. 
St. George, sir Henry, 52. 
St. Giles's highway repaired, 214. 



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INDEX. 



St. John's college redeems its plate 
from Charles I., but afterwards 
bestows it upon his majesty, 15. 

St. John's coll. grove injured, 189. 

Salter, Nath., 184. 

Sancroft, William, made archbishop 
of Canterbury, 200, 201. 

San eta- Clara alias Chr. Davenport, 
166. Wood dines with him, 171. 
gives A. W. his works, 174. 

Sanders, captain, 156. 

Sandford near Oxon, 126. 

Savage, sir Arthur, 85. 

Savage, Henry, master of Balliol, 
compiles Balliofergus, and has 
help from A. W., 104, 108. 

Savage, Henrietta Maria, marries 
Ralph Sheldon, 261. 

Savill, Henry, 137, 237. 

Saunders, Anthony, 235. 

Sawyer, Thomas, 232, 237. 

Saxe Gotha, princes of, in Oxon, 294. 

Say, Robert, 142. 

Scholars become soldiers, 9, 266. 

Scholastica, St., the ancient cere- 
mony on this day proposed to be 
put aside, 222. some account of 
it, 223. abolished, 224. the city's 
great gratitude thereat, 224, 238. 

Science, Richard, 16. 

Scott, Robert, bookseller, 148. 

Scudamore, lady, living in Holy- 
well, 86. 

Scurvy-grass drunk as physic drink, 
87. 

Sedley, sir Charles, 136, 137, 160. 

Sedley, sir William, 160. 

Selden's books brought to Bodley's 
library, 95. leaves his spectacles 
in his books, 97. his marbles 
placed in the school's wall, 106. 

Sermons at Ch. Ch., controversy on, 
190. 

Sewster, Robert, 267. 

Seymour, Elizabeth, marries Wood's 
brother Christopher, 78. 

Seymour, Eliz., 357. 

Seymoure, William, 4, 357. 

Seys, Matthew, 268. 

Seys, Richard, 268. 

Sheffield, John, earl of Mulgrave, 

137- 

Sheldon, Ann, 250. 

Sheldon, Edward, writes the Rule of 
Faith, 179. and Councells of Wis- 
dom, 251. 



Sheldon, Frances, 249. Wood's re- 
gard for her, 250, 253, 262/, 

Sheldon, Gilbert, archbishop of Can- 
terbury, kind to A. W., 165. the 
members of the university dine 
with him, 165. 

Sheldon, Ralph, of Steeple Barton, 
65. 

Sheldon, Ralph, 137. Wood's first 
acquaintance with him, 1 78. im- 
prisoned, 206. his letters to Wood 
examined, 207, 237. his great 
kindness to A. W., 248, 249. 
their intercourse interrupted, 249. 
correspondence, 249 — 254. his 
death and his character, 260. ac- 
count of him, 261. his library &c. 
sold, 263, 332. 

Sheldon, Roger, 177. 

Sheldon, William, 261. 

Shepheard, Fleetwood, 137, 237. 

Sheppard, Margaret, 128. 

Sherlock, Richard, curate of Cas- 
sington, 41, 42. 

Shern, Richard, 176. 

Sherrard, hon. Christopher, dies, 

239- 

Sherwin, William, letter from, 189, 

221, 290. 
Shippen, William, 143. 
Shirley, John, of Trinity, ridicules 

A. W. in his speech, 185, 187. 
Shrieve, Anne, 233. 
Shrieve, Thomas, 233. 
Shrove Tuesday speeches, 35. 
Shuttleworth, Clerke, 247. 
Shuttleworth, sir Richard, marries 

Miss Clerke, 247. 
Skinner, Robert, bishop of Oxon, 

ordains at Ch. Ch., 111, 112. 
Skinner, Thomas, 271. 
Skinner, William, 271. 
Slater, Ed., of Merton, 215. preaches 

an eloquent sermon, 237. 
Slatford, , 306. townclerk, 308, 

310. 
Slatter, Edm., burnt with gunpow- 
der, 269. 
Slatter, Francis, 237. 
Slatter, Wm., mayor of Oxford, 

225. 
Sloane, sir Hans, chosen physician 

to Christ's hospital, 307. 
Sloper, Charles, 295. 
Smalridge, George, 307. 
Smith, Alice, 291. 



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407 



Smith, Francis, B. Med., 230. 

Smith, Michael, 256. 

Smith, Tho., goes with Wood to 

Bay worth, 84. 
Smith, Tho., 257, 258. 
Smith of St. John's, proctor, 296, 

3°9- 

Snow, Ralph, 180. 

Somerset, Henry, marquis of Worces- 
ter, 199. 

Somner, Will., writes his first letter 
to A.W., 129. 

Sonmans, William, painter, 187. 

Souch, Richard, of C.C.C., 238. 

Souch, Rich., milliner, 238. his wife 
burnt, 206. 

South, Dr. Rob., 182. preaches on 
sacrilege, 189. false, 192. resigns 
the orator's place, 198. king James 
II. notices him, 280. and treats 
him familiarly, 288. his witty but 
unfeeling remark on Wood, 355. 

Southby, Strange, denied his de- 
gree, 242. 

Southley, — , B. A., of Merton, 221. 

Spark, Tho., 247. 

Speeches by freshmen in the hall of 
Merton coll., 36, 38. 

Spencer, Robert, earl of Sunder- 
land, 283. 

Spencer, sir Tho., 204, 232. 

Sprigg, William, 102. 

Squyre, Will., 176. 

Stanie or Staine, Will., 46, 55. 

Standish, W., pledges his plate to 
the university, 127. 

Stanley, Dr. Edw., 307. 

Star, blazing, 140. 

Statues on each side of the gate of 
the physic garden purchased with 
Wood's fine, 381. 

Stephens, Henry, 316. 

Sterry, Nath., 109, 113, 123. 

Sthael, Peter, 134, 135. 

Stillingfleet, Edward, 245. 

Stone, Will., 167. 

Stonehouse, Eliz., 88. 

Stonehouse, sir Wm,, 88. 

Stradling, George, 65. 

Strafford, Tho. earl of, 385. 

Strange, Richard, of Cars well, 242. 

Stratford, William, 18. 

Strickland, Rich., 237. 

Stuart, Frances, duchess of Rich- 
mond, 1 23. 

Stubbe, Henry, his narrow escape, 
102. 



Sturgeon caught at Clifton, 196. 

Surtees, Robert, 357. 

Sutcliffe, Math., 239. 

Sutton, Tho., 240. 

Swall, Mr., 319. 

Sykes, Tho., Trin. coll., 303. 

Symms, cornet, 28. 
T. 

Talbot, sir John, 208. 

Tanner, Tho., 307, 309, 311, 316. 
his letter on Wood's death, 318, 
320, 321, 335. first recommended 
to A. W. by Charlett, 340. 

Taverner family noted for comeli- 
ness, 8. 

Taverner, John, 77, 134. 

Taverner, Mary, 77. 

Taverner, Richard, 8, 12. 

Tayler, William, 221. 

Taylor, Silas, 91. 

Taylor, Sylvanus, 90, 105. 

Taylour, Joseph, 146. 

Tellier, Charles Maurice Le, visits 
Oxford, 195, 196. 

Templars, their house at Sandford, 
127. 

TerrsefiUus, part of a speech by, 187. 

Terraefilii, 237, 238. 

Terwick, capt., 221. 

Thame, John, builds Fairford church, 
finished by sir Edmund Thame, 
107. 

Thame school, and list of the mas- 
ters, 17. account of the school 
printed by Vantrollier, very rare, 
18. 

Theed, Richard, 6. 

Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice, 68. 

Theyer, John, solicitor, 33. enter- 
tains A. W., 160. 

Thomas, David, 18. a good loyalist, 
31. master of Dorchester school, 

7 1 - 

Thomas, Samuel, 198. 
Thomkins, Tho., 180. 
Thompson, Avery, 233. 
Thorne, Philip, 292. 
Thornhill, John, 28. 
Thurston, Sam., town clerk, 306, 308. 
Tilden, Theoph., 281. 
Tillotson, John, 81, 245, 373. 
Tillyard, Arthur, apothecary, 63, 

135' 246. 
Tillyard, Christopher, inventory of 

his goods, 64. 
Tillyard, Margaret, 64. 
Tipping of Cassington, 41, 55. 



408 



INDEX. 



Todd, Hugh, 258, 297. 

Tom's coffee-house, 48. 

Tooker, col., 26. 

Torlesse, Rich., 237. 

Torriano, Alexand., 189. 

Tredagh, storming of, and cruelties 

practised there, 51, 52. 
Trevour, Rich., 159. 
Trigg, Bridgett, 83. 
Trinity college plate, 16. 
Trinity coll. frequented by A. W., 

182. rude conduct there at the 

election of proctor, 184. 
Trinity coll. chapel consecrated, 303. 
Trist, major, 26. 
Tristram, John, 141. 
Troughton, John, 235. 
Turnerand, Edw., 113. 
Turner, Francis, 134, 256, 311. 
Turner, sir Wm., 293. 
Tuscany, Cosmo duke of, 77, 163, 

349- 

Twisse, Will., 350. 

Twyford, Mr., 140. 

Tylliard, Arthur ; see Tilly ard. 
U. V. 

University college plate given to 
Charles I., 14. 

Upton, Wm., of King's Sutton, 306. 

Usher, James, abp. of Armagh, his 
MS. papers, 167. 

Vach, the, in parish of Chalfont, 
126. 

Vanburgh, sir John, 48. 

Vane, sir Henry, 102. 

Varrio the painter, 289. 

Vaughan, John, 96. 

Vaughan, the hon. Mr., son of the 
earl of Carbury, 237. 

Vaughan of Edmund hall, stands for 
Seiston, 233. 

Vaulx, John, 141. 

Verman, Geo., sen. proctor, speaks 
well of A.W., 184. 

Vesey, Richard, 293, 299. 

Vilett, Nicholas, 230. 

Vincent, Augustine, his MS. col- 
lections, 262. 

Vincent, John (his son), sells his 
father's papers to Mr. R. Sheldon, 
262. 

Vincent, John, fellow of All- Souls, 
90. 

Vincent, Tho., 177. 

Violins introduced, 70. 

Visitation of Oxford by two he- 
ralds, 5. 



Visitors from the parliament come 
to Oxford, 38. 

W. 

W. J. (i. e. J. Warneford), Wood's 
great friend, 58. 

Wadham coll. plate given to Chas. 
I., 14, 16. 

Walker, Joshua, 258. 

Walker, Obadiah, 147, 167, 175, 
207. 

Walker, Will., 293. 

Waller, Elizabeth, 17. 

Waller, Robert, 17. 

Waller, sir Will., threatens Oxford, 
16. 

Wallingford castle demolished, 45. 

Wallis, Dr. John, admits A. W. to 
the archives, 107. and places 
great confidence in him, to8, iio, 
135, 168. takes from A. W. the 
writings, &c. had out of the ar- 
chives, 206, 257, 258. treats him 
rudely, 259. 

Walter, capt., 21. 

Walter, col. Daniel, 25, 26. 

Walter, Elizabeth, 25. 

Walter, sir John, 25. 

Wanley, Humphrey, 155. 

Waple, Edward, stands for the ora- 
torship, 213, 214. 

Ward, Esay, 105. 

Ward, Seth, 293. 

Warneford, Edmund, 130. 

Warneford, John, Wood's intimate 
friend, 130. 

Warneford, lady Wetherell, 131. 

Warner, John, bp. of Rochester, 174. 

Wase, Christ., 172, 278. 

Watkins, Bridget, 186. 

Watkins, Rich., 50. 

Weather very mild, 236. 

Webb, William, bookseller, 70. 

Weldon, George, 59. 

Wells, Edward, of Ch. Ch., 306. 

Welsted, A., 258. 

West, Mr., of Hampton Poyle, 61. 

Westcote, Gervase, 66, 67, 93. 

Wetherell, sir Charles, 131. 

Whale, great, 196. 

Wharton, George, 99. 

Wharton, Gilbert, 213. 

Wheare, Degory, 194. 

Wheeler, Maurice, 258. 

Wheeler, Robert, 18. 

Wheeler, sir W., 75. 

White, Christopher, 275. 

White, John, 249. 



INDEX. 



409 



White, sir Sampson, 175, 198, 249. 
White, Tho., D.D. by diploma, 255. 
Whitehall, Rob., i[3, 175. 
Whitehead, John, 59. 
Whitelock, Bulstrode, 83. 
Whitgrave, Tho., 177. 
Whorwood, Brome, 65, 211, 216, 

223. 
Whorwood, Brome, jun., drowned, 

72. 
Whorwood, Jane, her loyalty and 

sendees to king Chas. II., 72, 73, 

14, 75- 
Wickham, David, 231. 
Wickham, Elizabeth, 128. 
Wickham, Jane, 70. 
Wickham, John, 70, 78. 
Wickham, Will., 70, 128. 
Wicklow, (forsan Wickham), David, 

231. 
Wight, Nathaniel, 196. 
Wilgoose, John, takes a lease of the 

Wood family, 104. 
Wilgoose, of Brasenose, dies, 247. 
AViikins, John, warden of Wadham 

bp. of Chester, his death, 81. 
Williams, John, lord, founds a 

school at Thame, 17. 
Williams, Tho., 53, 54. 
Williamson, sir Joseph, 135. 193. 
Willis, Hugh, 18. 
Willis, John, 151. 
Willis, Thos., the physician, 129, 

J5 1 ' 

W T ilmot, lieut., 28. 

Wilson, bp. of Limerick, 317. 

Wilson, lieut., 28. 

Wilson, John, the best flute -player 

in England, 66, 68, 69, 105. 
Wilton, John, 131. 
Winchelsea, earl of, see Finch. 
Winchurst, John, 246. 
Winds violent, 82, 95. 
Wines, prices of, 1667, 1673, 229. 
Winnington, sir Francis, 211. 
Wiseman, Charles, 90. 
Wiseman, of Lockinge, 230. 
Wither, herald painter, 161. 
Withrington, Mr., 148. 
Wolveridge, Anthony, 237. 
Woman tried for marrying a young 

maid, 295. 
Wood, Anne, 334, 357. 
A\ ood. Anthony a, his birth, 3. 

christened, 4. in a house near 

Merton, 6. sees king Charles I. 
wood, vol. 1. 



6. put to school, 7. is ridden 
over, 7. sent to a Latin school, 7. 
thence to New college school, 
8. account of his mother, 12. 
his studies interrupted by the 
civil wars, 13. sent to Tets worth, 
16. removed to Thame and there 
sent to school, 17. very dili- 
gent, 19. his studies impeded 
by the civil war, 20. disturbed 
by the skirmishes which he re- 
cords, 20 — 30. witnesses the sur- 
render of Borstall, 31. obliged 
to leave Thame, 32. his affection 
for that school, 33. is placed 
under his brother Edward, 33, 
34. his mother wishes to make 
him an apprentice, which he dis- 
dains, 33. proposes to make him 
a solicitor, 33. enters the univ. 
is matr. of Merton, and made 
postmaster, 34. speaks the fresh- 
man's speech, 36. is called be- 
fore the visitors, 39. warden 
Brent saves his postmastership. 
39. is placed under C. Maund, 

44. his brother Edw. peevish 
with him, 44. made bible-clerk, 

45. verses ascribed to him, 50. 
exercises his taste in music, 53. 
is examined for the degree of 
B. A., 53. has a fall from his 
horse and is injured, 53. is seized 
with an ague, 55. learns to plow, 
ring bells, and applies himself to 
music, 56. tries to conquer the 
ague by drinking, 56. takes les- 
sons in music, 57. obtains ad- 
mission to the Bodleian, the hap- 
piness of his life, 57. lights upon 
the Hist, of Leicestershire and the 
Display of Heraldry, in which he 
delights, 58. tricks arms, 58. 
forms an intimacy with J . Warne- 
ford, 58. examined for M. A. 

59. taken notice of by Dr. Bar- 
low, 60. enjoys some frolics, 60. 
travels the country as a musician, 

60. declaims in the schools, 61. 
appointed collector, 61. publishes 
his brother's sermons, 63. be- 
comes a regular practiser in mu- 
sic, 65. delighted with Dugdale's 
Antiq. of Warwickshire, 68. his 
life a perfect elysium, 68. begins 
a survey of the antiquities of 

e e 



410 



INDEX. 



Oxford, 68. subscribes to the 
bells at Merton, 68. becomes a 
bell ringer, 70. peruses Leland's 
Collections, 71. visits Dorches- 
ter, 71. visits Ensham, 75. gives 
an entertainment to the musical 
people, 77. a second entertain- 
ing, 80. hears Baltzar, 80. plays 
with him, 82. visits Charnel Pet- 
tie, 83. petitions against the vi- 
sitors, 84. his love for music con- 
tinues, 83. goes to Banbury, 93. 
assists in putting Selden's books 
in order, 95. is rewarded by a 
pair of his spectacles, 98. resigns 
his interest in his patrimony in 
favour of his brothers, 101. ob- 
tains access to Ch. Ch. records, 
101. betakes himself seriously to 
the study of antiquities, 103. is 
terrified by the perusal of Casau- 
bon's book on Spirits, 103. ap- 
plies for leave to consult the ar- 
chives, 104. peruses the MSS. 
at C.C.C., 105. performs at the 
music lecture, 105. inspects the 
MSS. at various colleges, 106. 
goes to Meysey Hampton, 106. 
to Fairford, 107. obtains admis- 
sion to the archives, 107. Dr. 
Wallis's confidence in him, 108. 
assists Dr. W. ,110. has an issue 
by the advice of Dr. Lower, 129. 
assists Dr. Wallis in arranging 
the evidences in the Tower of the 
Schools, 139. peruses the evi- 
dences of several colleges, 142. 
obtains leave to go into the gal- 
leries of Bodiey's library, 144. 
his mother dies, 146. pays his 
first tax, 147. goes to London in 
the coach, 147. becomes acquaint- 
ed with Pearson, 148. and with 
Prynne, 149. writes to thank Dr. 
Barlow for his fatherly kindness, 
151. reputed to be author of No- 
titia Acad. Oxon. 152. visits Bor- 
stall, 155. goes to Waterstock, 
157. Dr. Savage sends him his 
book, 157. goes to Cooper's hill, 

160. to Gloucester, 160. keeps 
Christmas with sir Geo. Croke, 

161. goes in the flying coach to 
London, 162, 164. driven from 
his usual meals, and his distress 
thereon, 163. his hearing becomes 



impaired, 164. dines with the abp. 
of Canterbury, 165. much noticed, 
166. the delegates of the press 
give him 100Z. for his Hist, et 
Antiq. Oxon. 167. communicates 
his notes to Ralph Bathurst, who 
betrays him, 168. the trouble he 
undergoes in revising his Hist. 
for the Latin version, 169. makes 
notes on Leycester's Cheshire, 

171. places his 100/. in the hands 
of his brother Christ., 171. spoken 
well of by Lloyd, 172. his Eng- 
lish copy put into Latin by Peers, 

172. has a good glass given him, 

173. Dr. Fell undertakes A. W.'s 
Hist, at his own charge, 175. is 
present at a conference on the 
ditch in Long wall, 175. prevents 
an intrusion on the boundaries of 
St. Jo. Bapt. parish, 176. becomes 
acquainted with Huddleston, 177. 
and with Ralph Sheldon, 177. 
corrects Blount's Animad. on 
Baker, 179. who lauds him, 180. 
dines again with the abp. of Cant. 
180. who encourages him, 181. 
goes toTrin. Coll. frequently, 182. 
desired to refrain, 182. Fell sends 
for and upbraids him, 183. is 
praised in the proctor's speech, 
184. his brother's wife uncivil, 

184. is abused by the terra? films, 

185. taken for a papist, 178, 191, 
207. arranges lord Fairfax's 
MSS.. 192. his Hist, et Antiq. 
Univ. published, 192. dedicated 
to the king, 193. copies presented 
to illustrious strangers, 194, 195. 
recommended for a herald's place, 
195. almost killed by medicine, 
195. loses H.F., 199. keeps Lent 
at Weston, 202. at Bath, 204. 
Dr. Wallis takes from him all the 
archive papers, 206. has a visit 
of suspicion from the vice-chan- 
cellor, 206. takes the oaths of 
allegiance and supremacy, 208. 
slighted by the master of Pem- 
broke, 209. gives his Hist. Oxon. 
to Herald's coll. at the request of 
Dugdale, 211. animadverts on 
Burnet's Hist, of the Reform., 215. 
gives a gratuity to White Kennett 
for aid in Kent, 240. his unrea- 
sonable expectations from Mr. 



INDEX. 



411 



Sheldon, 249. interrupt their 
friendship, 252. Dr. Wallis ob- 
tains the keys from him, 259. loses 
his friend Mr. Sheldon, 260. dines 
in London with Dr. Nath. John- 
ston, 290. is cited to the chan- 
cellor's court to answer the earl 
of Clarendon, 290. is taxed at 
200Z., 293. portrait of by Bur- 
ghers, 294. his case with lord 
Clarendon terminates, 295. hard- 
ship of the proceedings against 
him, 296. sentence against him, 
296. his book burnt, 297. his 
name inserted in the black book, 
299. the proctor speaks disre- 
spectfully of him in his speech, 
303. goes to London as a witness 
in the Magd. hall case, 304. is 
ridiculed on his return home by 
" a little poor thing," 305. his 
letter to sir L. Osbaldeston, 305. 
goes to Astrop wells, 306. indis- 
posed, 307. contends that his sen- 
tence is taken off by act of par- 
liament, 309. his displeasure 
dreaded, 309. bp. More praises his 
Athence, 310. dines with Dr. Char- 
lett, 311. has an interview with the 
earl of Clarendon, 311. his letters 
toandfromMr.Dodwell,3i2,387. 
to lord Clarendon, 314. obtains 
an annuity, 316. goes to Binsey 
and Godstow with bp. Tanner, 
then a young bachelor, 316. taken 
ill, 316. is visited by Dr. Char- 
lett, 317. makes his will, 318. 
dies, 321. his MSS. and books 
bequeathed to the Ashmolean 
museum, 318. Thos. Rowney 
erects a monument to him, 322. 
his will in full, 334. Hearne's 
account of him,, 337. his accurate 
observation obnoxious to the 
Merton men, 337. his remark on 
the discovery of some mistakes, 
337. his papers looked on as 
valuable, 338. not so deaf as he 
represented himself to be, 338. 
his generosity, 338. his usual 
gait, 339. said to have used spec- 
tacles very early, 339. dies in the 
communion of the church of 
England, 339. and with great 
patience and humility, 341. his 
coins curious, and how disposed 



of, 341. catalogue of his MSS. 
printed, 352. pedigree of A. W., 

357. the proceedings against him, 

358. the sentence, 377. passages 
excepted against, 384. of which 
after all he was not the author. 

385. 

Wood, Benj., 236, 290, 291. 

Wood, Charles, 357. 

Wood, Christopher, brother of A. 
W., 13, 16, 20, 32, 33. marries, 
78, 101, 171, 335, 357. 

Wood, Edward, brother to A. W., 
made postmaster of Merton, 9. a 
scholar of Trinity, 13. bears arms^ 
13. comes to Thame, 32. is tutor 
to A. W., 33. put in fellow of 
Merton, 41. suspended by the 
visitors, 47. visits his brother A. 
W. when ill, 57. made junior 
proctor, 61. dies, 61. verses on, 
62. his sermons printed by A.W., 

<%> J 34, 357- 
Wood, Eliz., 357. 
Wood, Frances, 334, 357. 
Wood, Henry, uncle to A.W., 12. 
Wood, Hugh, 12, 357. 
Wood, James, it, 357. 
Wood, John, brother to A.W., dies, 

1> 12, 357. 
Wood, John, of Edinb., 173, 174. 
Wood, Margaret, his father's first 

wife, 12. 
Wood, Mary, mother to A. W T ., 12. 

her property injured by fire, 32, 

41. goes to Cassington, 41, 42. 

Merton coll. sets a fine on her 

house, 49. she dies, 146, 335, 

342, 357. 
Wood, Peter, 294, 357. 
Wood, Richard, 13, 238, 357. 
Wood, Robert, uncle to A.W., 12. 
Wood, Robert, brother to A. W., 

goes to France, 9, 13, 57. marries 

Mary Drope, 99, 100, 101, 334, 

357- 
Wood, Robert, of Islington, 13. 
Wood, Roderic, 357. 
Wood, Seymour, 357. 
Wood, Thomas, father to A. W., 3. 

dies, 11. account of him, 12, 325, 

357- 
Wood, Thomas, brother to A. W., 
student of Ch. Ch., 7. his mili- 
tary ardour, 10. goes to Edgehill, 
11. a rough soldier, 13. goes to 



412 



INDEX. 



Ireland, 39. dies there, 50. ac- 
count of, 51, 344, 357. 

Wood, Thos., 2ig. vindicates his 
uncle A. W., 293, 300. 

Wood, Tho., of Broadgate, 342. 

Wood, Tho., landlord of the Saluta- 
tion, 77. 

Woodier, John, 179. 

Woodford, Samuel, 91, 92. 

Woodhop, a priest, 261, 

Woodroff, Benjamin, 134, 171, 283, 
300. 

Woodward, Michael, 112, 134. 

Worcester, Henry, marquis of, see 
Somerset, Henry. 

Workman, James, 113, 196, 256. 

Wray, Mr., 81. 

Wright, John, 46. 

Wren, sir Christopher, 64, 135, 190, 

Wren, Matthew, 65. 

Wren, Matthew, bishop of Ely, 66. 

Wren, Thomas, 65, 66. 



Wright, Abraham, his volume of 

poems, 107. 
Wright, John, postmaster of Mer- 

ton, 46. 
Wright, William, 211, 216, 223, 

238. 
Wright, recorder of Oxford, 310. 
Wroughton, Charles, 215. 
Wyatt, William, stands for the ora- 

torship, 213, 242. preaches a high 

flown sermon, 300. 
Wych, sir Cyril, 237. 
Wycleve, John, Fell's opinion of 

him, 182. 
Wyght, Nath., 197. 
Wyld, Edmund, 152. 

Y. 
Yate, Thomas, 112, 165, 167, 174, 

193> 235. 
Yarbury, Henry, 135, 211, 212. 
Yarnton house, 204. 
Younger, Dr. John, 232. 



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